.30 MEMOIR OF I)R WliKJHT. 



in those regions, where the climate and the soil are 

 equally favourable to the productions of the vegetable 

 kingdom, and where nature appears to have exhausted 

 her efforts in the gay profusion of her gifts. But the 

 enquiring mind of Dr Wuight was not to be limit- 

 ed to the mere purposes of classification and arrange- 

 ment in his botanical pursuits. The practice of me- 

 dicine was not in his hands a matter of dull and or- 

 dinary routine. His attention was constantly applied 

 to its advancement as a science, and while he discover- 

 ed an extraordinary diligence in procuring the results 

 of the latest observation, from all the quarters of the 

 world of letters, he was indefatigable in availing him- 

 self of the peculiar advantages which he enjoyed in 

 making his researches in the school of Nature. 



The valuable information which Dr Wright was 

 so industrious in acquiring, he was equally ready to 

 communicate. He was visited by every scientific tra- 

 veller who made the natural history of the British 

 West Indies the subject of his study. To such visi- 

 tors the ordinary offices of hospitality formed a small 

 part of the obligation which they had reason to ac- 

 knowledge. With a liberality for which collectors are 

 not universally remarkable, his own stores were always 

 open to the inspection of the curious, and his dupli- 

 cates were readily bestowed on such as could appre- 

 ciate their value. The habitats of the rarer objects 

 of pursuit were carefully pointed out ; and when the 

 time or the limits were exhausted within which his 

 own personal attentions could be conveniently devoted 

 to the accommodation of his visitors, he provided them 



