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THE PACIFIC COAST SURVEY 263

Major Stevens, in seconding the resolution, addressed the meet- ing as follows:

I rise, Mr. Chairman, in the name of one of the co-ordinate services associated on duty here, to pay a tribute to the memory of Lieut. McArthur. I can add nothing to the remarks that have been already made. I simply propose to pay a tribute of feeling and respect.

It was not my fortune to know Lieut. McArthur personally. But I feel that I know him well through his works. They hold up his character as worthy of all respect and admiration. In prosecut- ing his labors on the Pacific shore he exhibited a constancy, an energy, and a rare force of command which enabled him to triumph over almost insuperable difficulties. These qualities would have made him conspicuous in any career. He possessed all the ele- ments of the heroic spirit. Trials which bowed down the strength of strong men gave his feeble frame almost superhuman strength; and he accomplished, in the midst of sickness and physical de- pression, of mutiny and desertion, labors that those most highly favored by health and appliances would have shrunk from. His example appeals to us with irresistible force. How can we yield to despondency witnessing his lion heart accomplishing its great purpose giving vigor to a worn-out frame, and snatching success from the elements of defeat?

McArthur was an ornament to both services with which he was connected to that larger service, the profession of his youth, in which he took such pride; and to that other service to which his maturer years have been applied. He has, in the words of the resolutions, for ever identified his name with the progress of the Republic in the West. It has gone into history, and will hence- forth be associated with those of Decatur and of Perry.

The resolutions having been agreed to unanimously, the meet- ing adjourned sine die.

(Signed) A. D. BACHE, Chairman.

THORNTON A. JENKINS, Secretary.

Under the date of December, 1850, and published probably early in 1851, the Coast Survey issued a small pamphlet en- titled "Notices of the Western Coast of the United States." This pamphlet contained eight notices, all of them by McArthur and Bartlett, which dealt with Pacific Coast matters. A brief synopsis of these notices follows :

"No. 1. Sailing Directions to Accompany the New Chart of the Western Coast of the U. S. First edition, published