Monument to Maury

The Daughters of the Confederacy has set on foot a movement to erect a monument to the memory of Matthew Fontaine Maury. It is a shame that in doing honor to the great men of the past Matthew Fontaine Maury should have had so little consideration. But it can be said to the honor of his name that he himself has built a monument through his contributions to science that will be more lasting than any granite shaft that could be erected to him by mankind. Two or three of the European nations have erected monuments to him, while the United States, his own country — be it said to our shame — has not deigned to preserve his memory through so much as a marble slab! But it is most fitting that the first step in this direction should be taken by the women of the South — the Daughters of the Confederacy. If the means justified the monument they should erect it would not be less imposing than the one which was erected in honor of that other great Virginian, George Washington — Roanoke Times.