MEMOIR OF 1)11 WRIGHT. 95 



second from the author, you will he so good as huy it 

 for me. 



?' Mr John Bell's work on Wounds is in the press. 

 That part which treats of gunshot wounds I have now 

 hy me to revise and correct, having seen many acci- 

 dents of this sort." 



Up to this period l)r Wright had continued to 

 reside in Edinburgh during the winter months. On 

 the appointment of a medical staff for North Britain, 

 in 1795, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir George Bakkr, 

 and Dr Garthshore, combined their influence and 

 exertions to get their friend placed upon it, but with- 

 out success ; and as the security on which he had in- 

 vested the greater part of his property was still in a 

 precarious and unsatisfactory condition, he was in- 

 duced to accede to a proposal which was then made to 

 him, to accompany Sir Ralph Abercrombie, as 

 physician to a considerable armament, about to be 

 despatched for the protection of our West India pos- 

 sessions. 



On the 25th of August 1795, he writes to Dr 

 Garthshore as follows : — " I had the honour of your 

 letter by Mr Kirwan, who has been here for a fort- 

 night. He is so well pleased with the country, and 

 the attention he has met with, that he is resolved to 

 return to Scotland next year. Dr Black and Dr 

 Rutherford have been much with him ; I have 

 seen him as often as I coidd, and gave him a share of 

 any fossils I had. 



" I am also favoured with yours of the 22d cur- 



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