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Humboldt and Fremont

Jahr

1856

Ort

Chicago, Illinois

Nachweis

in: Chicago Daily Tribune 10:31 (15. Juli 1856), [o. S.].

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen; Fußnoten mit Asterisken.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: VII.14
Dateiname: 1851-Colonel_Fremont-08-neu

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Humboldt and Fremont.

Among the scientific honors paid to ColonelFremont, as a pioneer of American discovery,certainly not the least notable was that confer-red by the King of Prussia in “the great GoldenMedal of Progress in the Science.” The mannerof its communication added a rare value to thegift. It was sent with a most complimentaryletter of Baron Humboldt, who took occasion toadd the warmest expressions of his own person-al respect and admiration. As this letter hasapparently been overlooked in the notices re-cently made of Fremont by the press, we availourselves of the advance sheets of the new Biog-raphy in the course of publication by Derby &Co., of New York, to lay it before our readers.One sentence of Humboldt’s letter we havemarked in italics; it was a conscientious tributepaid to the Senator then; it is highly significantof Fremont’s “friendship to liberty and to theprogress of intelligence” now. The following is the English translation ofBaron Humboldt’s letter: “To Colonel Fremont, Senator: “It is very agreeable to me, sir, to addressyou these lines by my excellent friend, our min-ister to the United States, M. de Gerolt. Afterhaving given you in the new edition of my ‘As-pects of Nature’ the public testimony of the ad-miration which is due to your gigantic labors be-tween St. Louis, of Missouri, and the coast ofthe South Sea, I feel happy to offer you, in thisliving token (dans ce petit signe de vie) the hom-age of my warm ackowledgment. You havedisplayed a noble courage in distant expeditions,braved all the dangers of cold and famine, en-riched all the branches of the natural sciences,illustrated a vast country which was almost en-tirely unknown to us. “A merit so rare has been acknowledged bya sovereign warmly interested in the progress ofphysical geography; the King orders me to offeryou the grand golden medal destined to thosewho have labored at scientific progress. I hopethat this mark of the Royal good will, will beagreeable to you at a time when, upon the prop-position of the illustrious geographer, Chas. Rit-ter, the Geographical Society at Berlin has nam-ed you an honorary member. For myself, Imust thank you particularly also for the honorwhich you have done in attaching my name andand that my fellow-laborer and intimate friend,Mr. Bonpland, to countries neighboring to thosewhen have been the object of our labors.—California, which has so nobly resisted the intro-duction of slavery, will be worthily represented bya friend of liberty and of the progress of intelli-gence.

“Accept, I pray you, sir, the expression of myhigh and affectionate consideration.“Your most humble and most obedient servant,“A. V. Humboldt.

“Sans Souci, October 7, 1850”

On the envelope thus addressed:“To Colonel Fremont, Senator,“With the great Golden Medal”“For progress in the sciences.“Baron Humboldt.” The following is the public testimony of theBaron’s admiration of the gigantic labors ofFremont, referred to in the letter, as containedin the new or third edition of his Aspects ofNature, and which, as a reference, becomes anatural appendant to the letter: “Fremont’s map and geographical investiga-tions comprehend the extensive region trom thejunction of the Kansas river with the Missourito the falls of the Columbia, and to the missionsof Santa Barbara and Puebla de los Angelos, inNew California; or a space of 28 degrees of lon-gitude, and from the 34th to the 45th parallel oflatitude. Four hundred points have been de-termined hyposometrically by barometic obser-vations, and, for the most part, geographicallyby astronomical observations; so that a districtwhich, with the windings of the route, amountsto 3,600 geographical miles, from the mouth ofthe Kansas to Fort Van Couver and the shoresof the Pacific, (almost 720 miles more than thedistance from Madrid to Tobolsk,) has been rep-resented in profile, showing the relative heightsabove the level of the sea. “As I was, I believe, the first person who un-dertook to represent, in geognostic profile, theform of entire countries—such as the Iberianpeninsula, the high lands of Mexico, and theCordilleras of South America, (the semi-perspec-tive projections of a Siberian traveler, the AbbeChappe, were founded on mere and generallyill-judged estimations of the fall of rivers)—it hasgiven me peculiar pleasure to see the geographicalmethod of representing the form of the earth ina vertical direction, or the elevations of the solidportion of our planet above its watery covering,applied on so grand a scale as has been done inFremont’s map.”

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