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mission to the editor of the London Medical Journal, in Avliich 

 it duly appeared (viii. pp. 217-295) in the same year. This account 

 is reprinted in the Memoir (see below) with additional extracts 

 " from Dr. Vv'right's Herbaria begun in the year 1773 and completed 

 in 1813. . . . The whole work extends to five volumes quarto, and 

 from a notice in Dr. Wright's handwriting, dated Edinburgh, 

 1st June 1813, it appears to have been carefully revised by him after 

 his return to Great Britain." 



In Feb. 1793 Wright wrote to Dr. Gartshore : — " Mr. Lindsay [see 

 Journ. Bot. liii. 106] of Westmoreland, Jamaica, has made several 

 connnunications to the R. Society of Edinburgh ; and two of them, 

 on Quassia poh/rjama \JPicrcena excelsa Lindl.], and Cinchona 

 hrachiicarpa \_Exosfemma hracln/carpa R. & S.], are in the hands of 

 the printer. At the desire of the Societ;\', and with the author's per- 

 mission, I have put them in proper order, and prepared them for the 

 press. You may say to Dr. Woodville that I now send him speci- 

 mens of Quassia excelsa of Swartz and Lindsay (my Ficrania 

 amara [P. excelsa'] London Medical Journal) ; also some of the 

 Cjrtex Cascarilla, gathered by m3^self \_Crofon glahellus L.]." 



In 1795 a considerable armament was to be despatched under 

 Sir Ralph Abercromby for the protection of the West Indies ; as the 

 mortality of the troops there was supposed to be owing in part to the 

 want of proper medical aid, special care was taken to send able 

 physicians, and Wright was one of those chosen on account of his ability 

 and previous experience. On arrival in the West Indies Wright had 

 charge of all the military hospitals in Barbados, and he there acquired 

 a large collection of the plants of the Windward Islands. Aber- 

 cromby in 1797 expressed in general orders his thanks to Y»^right 

 for his care of the sick, and after the conquest of Trinidad, returned to 

 England. A general order arrived from England for the reduction 

 of the medical staff; Wright took the opportunity to give up his 

 appointment, and in 1798 sailed for Liverpool, and settled again in 

 Edinburgh. In a letter to Dr. Currie in 1799 he says : " I have been 

 very bus}^ with West India and British Fuci. Of the latter 1 

 intend sending an assortment for Dr. Pulteney and another for the 

 Linnean Society, which I will beg you to present through Dr. Smith. 

 I am also occupied with ascertaining corallines by the help of Solander 

 and Ellis. In West India corallines my collection is complete." 



During the year 1800 Abercromby asked Wright to go as Phy- 

 sician to the Army, of which he was in command on the celebrated 

 expedition to Egypt, but the appointment was declined. In 1801 

 Wright corresponded with Dr. Currie about the establishment of a 

 Botanic Garden at Liverjoool ; with reference to the Herbarium, he 

 wrote : — " Dr. Roxburgh at Calcutta has sent home a ver}^ large 

 collection of dried specimens, of which I am to have a share. The}' 

 are to be divided with Sir Joseph Banks, and Mr. A, B. Lambert, 

 Vice-President of the Linnean Society, but I do not expect my pro- 

 portion until the spring. I have complete specimens of all those 

 which Dr. Roxburgh formerly sent to our Societj^ at your service." 

 Wright's exertions on behalf of the Garden were gratefully acknow- 

 ledged by William Roscoe, the founder of the Garden, in his address 



