A map of New England, being the first that ever was here cut, and done by the best pattern that could be had, which being in some places defective, it…
Matthew F. Maury, Superintendent of the U.S. Navy Depot of Charts and Instruments (later the U.S. Naval Observatory) from 1842 to 1861. "Father of the science of oceanography.", Whale Chart (1851), 1851
Matthew F. Maury and United States Naval Observatory, “Whale Chart” (1851) 1 map : col. ; 64 x 122 cm.