MEMOIR OF DK WEIGHT. 1<57 



111 a subsequent letter from Dr Garthshore, he 

 mentions having received this paper from Sir Charles 

 Blagden, to whom it had been communicated by Sir 

 Joseph Banks ; and that he had delivered it to Dr 

 Yellowley, for publication in a forthcoming volume 

 of what he calls " The Verulam Transactions ;" but, 

 after a good deal of inquiry, it has been found impossi- 

 ble to trace either Dr Wright's paper, or the work in 

 which it was to' have appeared. The name may pos- 

 sibly be a soubriquet familiar to the two friends ; or 

 the paper may have shared the fate of much that is 

 valuable, though fugitive, in the walks of science, as in 

 the lighter paths of literature. 



At the close of the year 1811, Dr Wright was 

 called upon by his friend Dr Garthshore, to redeem 

 the pledge he had obtained in the year 1807, of Dr 

 Wright's personal assistance in the final adjustment 

 of his temporal concerns. The promise he had made 

 to Dr Garthshore was always regarded by Dr 

 Wright as a sacred obligation ; and he prepared for 

 its performance at a very unseasonable period of the 

 year, with the utmost readiness and equanimity ; be- 

 lieving, as he said himself, before his departure from 

 Edinburgh, that it would not only contribute to his 

 friend's peace of mind, but, in all human probability, 

 add some years to his life. The resolution at which 

 Dr Garthshore had at length arrived, would have 

 been held by Dr Wright, under any circumstances, 

 to be an indispensable duty ; but he believed it to be 

 peculiarly incumbent on his friend, from the extraor- 

 dinary channel through which the greater part of his 



