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"My Dear and Illustrious Friend: It is now a great number of years since you have been so kind as to enrich with your generous contributions the most important institutions-the Admiralty, the Academy, the Schools of Navigation, and the Libraries-of my country. Your immense labours on currents and soundings, and the direction of winds at different seasons and in different latitudes, have exercised the most beneficent influence on the commerce of nations, by shortening, in a surprising manner, the passages by sea, and augmenting the security of navigation both in the Atlantie and the South Sea. The result has been the opening of new paths to navigators, who have been penetrated by the correctness of your views, and an increase of the facilities previously derived from the application of steam and the more frequent use of chronometers and of lunar distances. **My Sovereign, the King of Prussia, sensible of the eminent merit of your laborious undertaking, and interested in the noble efforts now making by the Government of the United States for the advancement of the Sciences which are so closely allied with the development of the common prosperity, desires to give to M. the Lieut. Maury, Superintendent of the National Observatory at Washington, a mark of his gratitude, by presenting him, through the hands of our Minister, M. De Gerolt (my excellent friend), the medal designed as a reward for distinguished works of science. Sens b'e, also, of the affection with which you have honoured me for so long a period, the King has deemed that he would be doing you a further pleasure by adding another medal, that which his Majesty had struck upon the publication of Cosmos.

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