90 MEMOIR OF Dlt WRIGHT. 



Cinchona brachycarpa, are in the hands of the print- 

 er. At the desire of the Society, and with the au- 

 thor's permission, I have put them in proper order, 

 and prepared them for the press. As soon as the 

 plates are finished, I shall send you copies for Sir Jo- 

 seph Banks, Dr Pulteney, and Dr Woodville. 



" You may say to Dr Woodville that I now send 

 him specimens of the Quassia excelsa of Swartz and 

 Lindsay (my Pierania amara, London Medical 

 Journal) ; also some of the Cortex Cascarittcc, gather- 

 ed by myself. Tell him he has copied the errors of 

 Linnaeus and others on this point ; and that he will 

 see a fine specimen of mine of the true plant at Sir 

 Joseph's, as Croton Eleutheria. I have a notion, 

 too, that the leaf of his Quassia amara is also a mis- 

 take, and that Linnveus took the leaves of the Sa- 

 pindus saponarius for the other. This, too, Sir Jo- 

 seph Banks will clear up. Dr Woodville will 

 probably rectify any mistakes at the close of the work, 

 and make some additions from Murray's last volume. 



" You may acquaint our friend Dr Pulteney, 

 that I got Drs Rutherford and Monro to make 

 and second the motion for his election, which was una- 

 nimous ; and which, I hope, will not be the less agree- 

 able to him, because unsolicited on his part." 



" The Trismus infantum," he again writes on the 

 7th of May, " locked jaw, or jaw falling of new-born 

 children, is rife and fatal in Jamaica, and, in some in- 

 stances, cannot be accounted for. It was very com- 

 mon for a Negro man to prepare a small inner apart- 

 ment for his wife, previous to her lying-in ; besides 



