Zoe, a biological journal printed in San Francisco from 1890 

 to 1895; an article in the Overland Monthly for 1884, entitled, 

 "A Naturalist in the Desert," and an article on collecting in 

 Alaska which 1 cannot now locate. Other papers are found in 

 Entomologica Americana, Canadian Entomologist, Papilio, 

 Entomological News, and Edwards' Butterflies of North Amer- 

 ica. 1 think the most important contribution which he made 

 to science was the help he rendered to W. II. Edwards in his 

 great work just mentioned. In the Ornithologist and Oologist 

 for February, 1885, we find an article on "An Experiment in 

 Bird Taming," with Phainupepla. nitens ; his name is frequent 

 in the two large volumes of the Geological Survey, Botany of 

 California, as he was an enthusiastic liotanical collector. In 

 fact, as can be seen, he was a naturalist in the strict sense ; such 

 naturalists are becoming rare as the years go by. His large 

 book, "Butterflies of the West Coast," which perhaps most of 

 you have seen, was pul)lished in San Francisco in October, 

 1905, and was really an epoch-making publication, notwith- 

 standing the numerous inevitable mistakes. The San Fran- 

 cisco fire coming a few months later, April, 1906, has made 

 the book now quite rare. The work was illustrated entirely 

 by color-photography. In a review, I termed his book 

 rafinesque, and that perhaps characterizes it better than any 

 other expression, and perhaps applies to his personal manners. 



Among the butterflies and moths Avhieh have Ix'cn named 

 in Ins honor 1)y diff'erent men, are : Melitaea wrightii, Copaeo- 

 des wrig-htii, Scepsis wrightii, Gluphisia wrightii, Leptarctia 

 wrightii, Selidosema wrightiarium. He named a number of 

 new species, l)ut a good many of them, especially those in his 

 1905 book, are synonyms. 



Wright was a great friend of the two noted pioneer bot- 

 anists and collectors, C. C. Parry and Edward Palmer, and 

 made many trips with them. He knew many otlier liotanists 

 and entomologists, but the data is not now obtainable. 



The following quotation from his book will show the spirit 

 of scientific work : ' ' The most that we can do is to note down 

 the things as we find them; and an aggregation of these notes 

 after a series of years will afford a distinct step forward in 

 the investigation." 



I shall always remember ray two days' visit with him in 

 August. 1908, on my way back from the San Jacinto ]\Ioun- 

 tains. My pack-burros and myself cami)ed out in his yard 

 and he took me to see the pioneer botanist, S. B. Parish, who 

 was out at the pumping plant on his place, superintending the 

 irrigation of his orchard. AVe sat down on some boxes and 

 liad a pleasant conversation till towards evening, wlum we went 

 to the house, where Mrs. Parish had set the table for the even- 

 ing meal. AVhat a pleasant memory this banquet with these 

 tw^o noted pioneers. Then next day Ave drove out in the 

 neighborhood of San Bernardino to some of Wright's collect- 



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