MEMOIH OF DB WRIGHT. 73 



ing every probable contingency, and for sustaining, at 

 the same time, the proper and becoming influence of 

 parental authority. 



On his arrival in London, about the end of Sep- 

 tember, Dr Wright found his health so much im- 

 paired, as to make it unsafe for him, at that season of 

 the year, to proceed to Scotland. The months of Oc- 

 tober and November he appears to have spent with 

 his friends in Hampshire, where his strength was in a 

 great measure restored. The winter was devoted to 

 the society of those personal and literary friends in 

 London, particularly Dr Garthshore and Sir Jo- 

 seph Banks, with whom, in every situation, he con- 

 tinued to maintain an uninterrupted intimacy. 



In arranging his specimens of Natural History, 

 Dr Wright had never contented himself with the 

 completion merely of his own collection. His en- 

 joyment was at least as great in supplying such de- 

 ficiencies as he knew to exist in the collections of 

 his friends ; and, on this occasion, as on his former 

 return from the West Indies, his contributions to 

 the Royal Gardens at Kew, and to the collections 

 of Sir Joseph Banks, and other scientific friends, 

 were valuable and extensive. 



During his stay in London, he opened a corres- 

 pondence with his nephew, who was at that time 

 engaged in his medical studies at the University of 

 Edinburgh. It continued without interruption un- 

 til the untimely death of this excellent young man, 

 in the year 1794-. Dr Weight's letters to his ne- 

 phew have not been preserved ; but his amiable cha- 



