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Mr. C. a. WRIGHT. 



Charles Augustus Wright, of Kayhough, Kcw Gardens 

 Road, Avas the sou of Mr, John Wright, of Cumberland 

 Terrace, Regeiit^s Park ; he was born on April 2nfl, 1834, 

 and in 1841 settled in the island of Malta, where, during 

 a residence of thirty-three years, he occupied himself in 

 working at the Natural History of the group. As founder 

 and Editor of the '^ Malta Times,^ he took a large part in the 

 politics of the day, Avhile as special Mediterranean corre- 

 spondent of ' The (London) Times ' he was the author of 

 various articles on naval matters. He was by no means 

 neglectful of the antiquities and fossils of Malta, and was 

 at one time Vice-President of its Archaeological Society ; 

 but his chief bent was in the direction of Ornithology, 

 Conchology, and Botany, in all of which branches of science 

 he amassed large collections. He was a Fellow of the 

 Linnean and Zoological Societies, and a member of various 

 local bodies, while he was elected to our Union in 1875, on 

 his iinal return from the Mediterranean. The Order of 

 Knight of the Crown of Italy was subsequently conferred 

 on him, in 1883, in recognition of his ornithological studies. 



Mr. Wright Avas one of the very early contributors to 

 'The Ibis,^ and furnished it with several important papers 

 on the Birds of Malta and Gozo between 18G3 and 1874, the 

 first being an account of a visit to the islet of Filfila. He 

 also wrote in Maltese on " Birds observed in Malta and 

 Gozo'^ for the "^ Maltese Encyclopaedia of Natural History^ 

 in 1862, and published an article in the '^Proceedings' of 

 the Zoological Society of Loudon for 1875 on the peculiar 

 Weasel of the island, while he was recognised as the greatest 

 authority on the Natural History of the group. He died in 

 "> 907, in his 74th year. 



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