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not been for his devotion and painstaking toil at a critical time, 

 the usefulness of the collection would have been seriously 

 impaired. The history of these events he records in the first 

 number of the " Notes from the Botanical School of Trinity 

 College" — a journal which owes its existence to Wright's 

 energy and generosit}^ He further showed his affection to 

 the department of which he was head by presenting to it his 

 valuable collection of botanical books and journals. In 1S94 

 Wright visited the Pyrenees, and brought back several ad- 

 ditions to the Herbarium, and the spring of 1895 ^^ spent 

 collecting in Algiers. In 1904 he resigned his professorship 

 after a tenure of 35 3^ears. 



In addition to his researches on Distribution and on Sys- 

 tematic Biology, Wright bore an active part in many scientific 

 societies and was officiall}' connected with several scientific 

 j^ublications. Among these activities may be mentioned his 

 connection with the " Natural History Review," as founder 

 and editor, as Secretary with the Dublin University Zoological 

 and Botanical Association, with the Royal Geological Society 

 of Ireland, and with Section D. of the British Association. 

 He was an original member of the Dublin Microscopical 

 Club, whose meetings in his rooms at Trinity College are 

 happy memories to man}' naturalists. He was president 

 of the Natural History Society of Dublin in 1872, and in 

 1874 he became Secretary of the Royal Irish Academy 

 and editor of its publications. He was also editor for 

 some time of the publications of the Royal Dublin Society. 

 In these various capacities he showed remarkable energy in 

 forwarding the welfare of the institutions with which he was 

 connected, and his generosity, when need arose, could always 

 safely be counted upon. He displayed the same activity and 

 generosity towards antiquarian research, and the Royal Society 

 of Antiquaries of Ireland marked its appreciation of his ser- 

 vices in forwarding its aims by electing him President in 1900. 



Wright had a great interest in his fellow-workers in science, 

 and his desire to help the work of others brought him into 

 personal contact with a large number of his colleagues, not 

 only in the British Isles, but also on the Continent and in 

 America. It was always a pleasure to him to speak of these 

 friends, and anecdotes of them formed a feature of his con- 

 versation. 



Hknry H. Dixon. 



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