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76 discussing the observations thus obtained from the sea, have arrived at that point at which observations on the land are found to be essential to a successful prosecution of our investigations into the laws which govern the movements of the grand atmospherical machine. At sea we have want the rule on land we look land, therefore, for the exceptions. We to see the spotted with co-labourers observing also, according to some uniform plan, such as may be to the agreed upon with the most distinguished meteorologists at home and abroad; and I have addressed myself agricultural interests of the country, because they have the deepest stake meteorology in the fence.

"This proposition concerning agricultural is a concerted plan" (see Maury's suggestions on this subject to the Meteorological Congress at Brussels in 1853), "and the idea is to spread this network of instruments and observers, also. not only in this country, but over other parts of the world also. And I am assured that as men of science and influence from abroad, such Baron Humboldt, Gornord, Le Verrier, Quetelet, Dove, Littron, Secchi, Jansen, Sabine, &c., stand ready with a host of others to co-operate with us according to any plan that shall be agreed upon. This meteorological plan, it appears to me, has precisely the tendency required for the emergency, for its tendency is to save labour and increase the harvests by foreknowledge."

C. B. Calvert, Maryland Agricultural Maury's it Society, rose to say in accordance with Lieutenant suggestions:—"That had remained of for the patient and long-continued observations plain sailors "under direction of this man of science, M. F. Maury, whom kings delight to honour, to find out the laws controlling the ocean storms. Let the observations on land be made by direction of Lieutenant as plain farmers, under the direction of Lieutenant Maury and then such conclusions would be reached would be of