[2] Ibid., December, 1840.
[3] From “The National Observatory” read by Maury before the Virginia Historical Society. It was copied from The Historical Register in the Southern Literary Messenger of May, 1849.
[4] From “Introduction”, p. xiii, to Maury’s Physical Geography of the Sea, 1855.
[5] “Physical Geography of the Sea”, 1855, p. 263.
[6] “Sailing Directions”, sixth edition (1854), pp. 725–730.
[7] “Founders of Oceanography”, p. 175.
[8] From “Chapter 1, The Air” by Hugh Robert Mill and D. Wilson Barker in Science of the Sea, edited by G. Herbert Fowler for the Challenger Society, 1912, p. 3.
[9] There is a tradition that Field said in this speech: “I am a man of few words: Maury furnished the brains, England gave the money, and I did the work.” But diligent search has failed to discover any authority for the statement.
[10] Um Estadista do Imperio (Paris, 1897), III, 12.
[11] In the Home Journal of New York, September, 1859.