94 MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 



hope in God that this example may have its due effect 

 with the deluded multitude." 



On the 9th of June 1794, he writes to Dr Garth- 

 shore : — " I thank you for Dr Woodville's four 

 numbers ; the engravings are executed with all the 

 neatness and elegance which characterized the former 

 work. I observe he has taken the earliest opportunity 

 of inserting the tree which produces the true Cortex 

 Cascarillaz, or Eleutheria. You may say to him that 

 Sir Joseph Banks, as well as myself, made it a Cro- 

 ton. Swart z, in his Prodromus, is of the same opi- 

 nion. The circumstance of its being polygamous, mi- 

 litates but little against this idea. The last Quassia 

 I sent you is polygamous, although the genus Quassia 

 belongs to the class Decandria of Linnaeus. Very 

 lately I got a small parcel of Conessi bark from Dr 

 Roxburgh at Madras. The tree is the Nerium anti- 

 dysentericum of Linnaeus, and you will find an ac- 

 count of its uses in medicine in the Edinburgh Me- 

 dical Essays, and in Murray's Apparatus Medicami- 

 num. If Dr Woodville takes notice of it, he may 

 see a specimen of the plant at the President's ; and I 

 shall take the first opportunity of sending a little of the 

 bark to give him." 



On the 20th of May 1795, he again writes to Dr 

 Garthshore : — " Messrs Veght, Schmissar and 

 Watte nb ac H called to take leave. I have shewn 

 these foreigners every civility and attention in my 

 power, and they have left me well pleased. Mr 

 Schmissak gave me the first volume of his System 

 of Mineralogy. If Dr Crichton does not get the 



