MEJVJOIE OF l)\i \\ KKIHI. Ill 



Dr Cukkik, this volume is adorned with several of 

 the letters of that elegant scholar and enlightened 

 physician. Many appropriate tributes have already 

 heen paid to Dr Gurrie's memory : the anniversary 

 of his birth is even marked as a white day in the ca- 

 lendar ; but a general collection of his correspondence, 

 would afford a monument, acre perennius, of his ta- 

 lents, his accomplishments, and his worth. To rear 

 such a structure is a task well fitted for the hand of 

 affection ; and Mr Wallace Currie will pardon the 

 respectfid suggestion, that the world has long looked 

 to him for its performance. 



In the later editions of Dr Currie's work, he closes 

 it in the following terms : 



" It would not become me to conclude without some no- 

 tice of Dr Wright, with whose important narrative this pub- 

 lication commences. 



" This respectable physician, after having retired from the 

 fatigues of his profession, had his services called for once more 

 by Sir Ralph Aisercuombie, and attended the last West 

 Indian expedition of that illustrious and lamented command- 

 er, in quality of physician to the army. On his return to 

 Britain he landed at Liverpool in June 1798, and I had then 

 an opportunity of forming not merely an acquaintance, but a 

 friendship, with one to whom, while unknown, I had been so 

 much indebted. I found in Dr Wright an excellent phy- 

 sician and naturalist, who had devoted a long life to the pur- 

 suits of science, not in academic bowers, but in situations of 

 toil, difficulty, and danger; who had profited of his ample ex- 

 perience, by constant and unprejudiced observation ; who pos- 

 sessed a generous and disinterested temper, and a simplicity 

 of manners worthy of a more virtuous age. From that time 



