176 MEMOin OF Dll WKIGHT. 



Wright, which could not have been satisfied with 

 its own exertions, while any corner of the field remain- 

 ed to be explored. In that interesting kingdom which 

 extends " from the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop on 

 the wall," he found a peculiar source of delight, from 

 the devotion with which he applied himself to the im- 

 provement of the healing art. It was indeed by this 

 happy combination of professional skill with botanical 

 inquiry, that he made those discoveries in science 

 which raised him to the highest literary distinctions, 

 and brought him to be favourably known in that se- 

 lect circle of science, where Banks, Solander and 

 Fothergill, Smith,Lind and Pulteney, Black, 

 Hope and Rutherford, Hutton, Homi. and the 

 two Hunters, were the burning and the shining 

 lights. 



The footing which he thus acquired by his profes- 

 sional and scientific attainments, he gradually secured 

 by the simplicity of his manners, and the endearing 

 qualities of his heart. It is indeed in the ordinary re- 

 lations of society, and amid the amenities of domestic 

 life, that the character of Dr Wright is to be view- 

 ed in its most amiable light *. Ever ready to defer the 

 gratification of his own wishes, he thought no sacri- 

 fice too great, when it served to promote the interests 

 or advancement of a friend. If he never knew what 



* Temperate in all his appetites, he was ahstemious almost to sin- 

 gularity in his indulgence in the pleasures of the tahle. — For the 

 last twenty-five years of his life, he never, in any form, made use of 

 ardent spirits, and a third glass of wine was the greatest excess 

 which, during that long period, he ever committed. 



