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search was made for some o£ them, e. g., MdrsupcUa arciica and 

 Scapania spUzhergensis. Some plants noticeable for their absence 

 in the collection are Clevea hi/alina, Saitteria alpina, Grimaldia 

 {Neesiella^ pilosa, Peltolepis grandis, Fimhria7^ia pilosa, Mar- 

 chantia polymorplia. Moerckia Blytii, Gymnomitrium concinnatum, 

 G. coralUoides, G. revolutum, Marsnpella condensata, 31. apicu- 

 lata, Prasaiifhns suecicus, Arndlia fennica, Alicularia compressa, 

 Aplozia ohlongifolia, Gymnocolea in-fiata, Lophozia ohtiisa^ L. 

 quadrlloha, L. Weiizelii, L. heferocolpa, Splienolohtis i^oUtus, 

 IS. groeiilandicus. Oephalozia conniveiis, Ceplialoziella grunsulana, 

 C.biloha, C.papillosa, HygrohieUa laxifolia, Pleuroclada albescens, 

 Odontoschisma Mncounii, Chandonanthus setiformis., Diplophyllum 

 albicans., D. gymnosfomopliilum, and Scapanla cuspiduligera. All 

 these species have been found in Spitzbergen or in similar arctic lands. 



No species of Riccia, Metzgeria, Anem-a, Pellia, Fossombronia, 

 Gymnomitrimn, Marsnpella, Alicularia, Aplozia, Gymnocolea, Pla- 

 giochila, Lophocolya, Leptoscyphus, Chiloscj^phus, Saccogvna, Caly- 

 pogeia, Lepidozia, Diplophjllum, Eadula, Lejeunea, Frullania, or 

 Anthoceros were 'collected. 



The following species, which are frequent in the alpine regions of 

 Britain, are apparently absent from Spitzbergen : — Pellia epipliylla, 

 Marsnpella emarginata, Alicularia scalaris, Antlielia julacea, 

 Gymnomitrium alpinum, G. adustum, and Aplozia cordifolia. 



WILLIAM WiUGHT, A JAMAICAN BOTANIST. 

 (1735-1819.) 



Bi' WlLLTAM FaWCETT, B.Sc. 



"William Weight, who was born at Crieff in March 1735 and 

 died in Edinburgh, Sept. 10, 1819, studied medicine at Edinburgh, 

 during which time he made a journey to Greenland. He joined the 

 Navy as Surgeon's mate in 1758, and sailed under Kodney for the 

 West Indies in 1760. In 1763, at the conclusion of the Seven Years' 

 V/ar, Wright's service in the Navy came to an end ; but he applied 

 himself to the studj^ of medicine, qualified as surgeon, and obtained the 

 M.D. degree. Keturning to the West Indies, he landed in Jamaica 

 early in 1765, and settled on Hampden Estate, as partner to a former 

 fellow-student, Thomas Steel. 



Three or four years after this, Wright received an application 

 fi-om the University of Edinburgh to contribute to the Museum of 

 Natural History which the University was about to establish. His 

 first contributions were confined to ornithology and entomology, but 

 in 1771 after he and his partner had moved into a new house which 

 they built and called Orange Hill, he began his collection of dried 

 plants arranged and described according to the Linnean system. He 

 marked in his cop}^ of the third edition of the Species Plantarum 

 (176-1) all those species which he examined in Jamaica to the number 

 of 761, inserting the common names and adding references to Sloane 

 and Browne where Linnseus had omitted to do so. He sent living 

 jDlants to the Bo3^al Gardens at Kew, and " several hundreds " of 

 dried specimens to Banks. He was also liberal in sending specimens 



