86 MEM OIK OF DR WRIGHT 



cause of literature and science, — a cause which at all 

 times he took great delight in promoting, by the esta- 

 blishment of a good understanding among literary men ; 

 and by strengthening the learned societies to which 

 he belonged, by the accession of some of the greatest 

 names of the age. 



On the 24th of January 1792, he writes to his 

 friend Dr Garthshore as follows : " I have now to 

 congratulate you on your election as a member of our 

 Royal Society, which happened at a full meeting yes- 

 terday, and was unanimous. As it is not customary 

 for the Society to intimate this to the newly elected 

 members, I thought it best to write a few lines to Sir 

 Joseph Banks and Dr Saunders, on the occasion 

 of their election. I got Dr Rutherford to pro- 

 pose Dr Saunders, and Dr Black to propose Sir 

 Joseph ; Dr Gregory, in the absence of Dr Monro, 

 proposed you, and I gave my support." 



On the 16th of March 1792 he again writes to Dr 

 Garthshore : " I was duly favoured with your and 

 Dr Pearson's obliging note, which has been given to 

 the Committee for our Pharmacopseia, a«iid will be 

 literally adopted as a formula for Pulvis antimonia- 

 lis. 



" 1 have not neglected the other affair you and I 

 have so much at heart. Our President has entered 

 warmly into the business, and has sounded the dif- 

 ferent members of the Council, who are all very friend- 

 ly. One of our laws expressly excludes any British 

 physician from being an honorary fellow of our Col- 

 lege. But the way I have proposed is to elect Sir 



