MEMOIll Ol' DR W-RIG-HT. .3 t 



with letters of introduction to such friends as would 

 be able to promote their views. He had opened a 

 correspondence, in both hemispheres, with men of emi- 

 nence in his own profession, as well as in general 

 science, and had placed himself in communication not 

 only with many of the learned societies in Great Bri- 

 tain, but with some of those infant establishments on 

 the continent of North America, which are destined, 

 in future ages, to give a new lustre to the parent 

 stock by an honourable rivalry. The extent of his 

 living contributions to the Royal Gardens at Kew, 

 and of his liberal additions to the dried collection of 

 Sir Joseph Banks, are matters of historical interest. 

 His personal friends * were supplied with equal libe- 

 rality, and by their means, not less than by his genius 

 and application, his name, as a naturalist, became fa- 

 vourably known wherever the science of nature was 

 encouraged. 



The simplicity as well as efficacy of the remedies 



* It is in acknowledgment of obligations of this kind, as well 

 as in compliment to the great attainments of Dr Wright in the 

 same paths of science with himself, that Dr Storks of Chester- 

 field has dedicated to him his learned and elaborate work, en- 

 titled the Botanical Materia Medica, in four volumes 8vo. Dr 

 Stores avails himself of the public opportunity afforded by the 

 dedication, to call upon Dr Wright to resume his pen, and com- 

 municate to the world all that he bad observed in the plants and 

 diseases of the West Indies. This eminent botanist speaks of the 

 Herbarium of Dr Wright, which he had seen at Edinburgh, as 

 one of the most complete collections which had ever fallen under 

 his observation. Dr Storks is understood to be still a survivor 

 of Dr Wright ; and affords another instance of the efficacy of bo- 

 tanical pursuits in promoting longevity. 



