OBITUARY NOTICES OF DECEASED FELLOWS. 



DR. RICHARD BRIGHT was the third son of Mr. Richard Bright, 

 an eminent merchant of Bristol, and commenced his education at a 

 private school in the neighbourhood of that city. He subsequently 

 was placed with the late Dr. Carpenter of Exeter. In the autumn of 

 1808, he matriculated at the University of Edinburgh, and attended 

 the general lectures delivered at that celebrated school ; but it was 

 not until the following year that he entered upon the studies more 

 immediately connected with the medical profession. 



In the summer of 1810 he accepted an invitation to accompany 

 Sir George Stuart Mackenzie and Mr. (now Sir Henry) Holland to 

 Iceland ; and the departments of Botany and Natural History in * The 

 Travels in Iceland,' subsequently published by Sir George Mackenzie, 

 were written by Dr. Bright. On his return from Iceland he studied 

 at Guy's Hospital for two years, and it was here that he acquired a 

 taste for pathological investigations. He returned to Edinburgh 

 in 1812, and graduated at that University in the following year. He 

 intended likewise to take a degree at Cambridge, and entered as an 

 undergraduate at Peterhouse; but he kept only two terms, finding the 

 college requirements as to residence incompatible with his profes- 

 sional pursuits. He then became a pupil, as he was subsequently a 

 colleague, of Dr. Bateman at the Carey-street Dispensary, and ac- 

 quired a knowledge of cutaneous diseases under that distinguished 

 disciple of Willan. 



When the Continent was opened to travellers by the general peace 

 of 1814, Dr. Bright visited Holland and Belgium, and spent some 

 months at Berlin, where he attended the practice of Horn and of 

 Hufeland, and made the acquaintance of Klaproth, Rudolphi, and 

 Heim ; during his residence at the Prussian capital, he acquired a 

 thorough knowledge of the German language. From Berlin he went 

 to Dresden for a short time, and arrived before the close of the year 

 at Vienna, where he attended the practice of Hildebrand, Rust, and 

 Beer, and became acquainted with Baron Jacquin, Prochaska, and 

 the elder Frank. From Vienna he proceeded in the spring of 1815 

 to Hungary, and, on his way home, passed through Brussels about 

 a fortnight after the battle of Waterloo, availing himself of the 



