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METEOROLOGICAL CONFERENCE.

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system of philosophical research with regard to the sea. Though they may be enemies in all else, here they are friends.

Every ship that navigates the high seas with these charts and blank abstract logs on board may henceforth be regarded as a floating observatory—a temple of science."

At the close of the Congress, Lt. Maury returned to his old post at Washington laden with honors and rich in fame. Many of the learned societies in Europe elected him an honorary member of their bodies. Orders of knighthood were offered him, and medals were struck in his honor. Baron von Humboldt declared that Maury had founded a new science.^[1]

↑ The letters offering Maury orders of knighthood, and presenting him with medals, will be found in an Appendix, which also contains an imperfect list of the learned societies which enrolled him among their honorary members. But many of the diplomas were lost in the war.

[1] The letters offering Maury orders of knighthood, and presenting him with medals, will be found in an Appendix, which also contains an imperfect list of the learned societies which enrolled him among their honorary members. But many of the diplomas were lost in the war.

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