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to whicli lie is now devoting himself. We shall not soon 

 forget the debt of gratitnde the Society owes to him for the 

 care and attention he has given to its bnsiness, and for the 

 valuable communications he has made to us from time to 

 time. 



I have now to refer to another loss the Society has recently 

 suffered, in the removal from among us of one well known 

 to us all — at least, to the older Members of the Society — 

 whose pleasant face we shall see here no more. I refer to 

 Thomas Strethill Wright, M.D., who died, after a long illness, 

 on the 13th day of October last. Dr Wright was an old 

 Member of the Society, having been elected in January 1851. 

 He was also one of the Presidents from November 1858 to 

 November 1861, when he delivered an opening address, the 

 science, the poetry, and the beauty of which were all alike 

 remarkable. 



The delicate state of Dr Wright's health in later years pre- 

 vented him from coming often to the meetings of the Society; 

 but we shall long miss him, as one of our leading scientific 

 naturalists, specially great in his owm departments of the 

 Protozoa and the Ccelenterata. Personally I mourn for him 

 as a long-known and talented man, and a highly- valued, 

 v/arm-hearted friend. I have thought it right — to give you 

 some idea of the amount of work done by the late Dr Wright 

 in his active days in our Society — to make out a list of the 

 communications he brought before us. I shall not refer here 

 to his valuable observations on Electricity, and to the impor- 

 tant papers brought by him before the Eoyal Scottish Society 

 of Arts, and other scientific societies, nor to his more recent 

 astronomical studies, which, while they expanded his ideas 

 and knowledge of the heavenly bodies, at the same time 

 deeply touched his heart, he told me, at the greatness and 

 glory of the Almighty Creator of them all. 



I shall simply confine myself to the communications he 

 has made to our Society. It will at least let some of our 

 younger Members see the kind of work done in this Society 

 in by-past years. These communications are upwards of 

 fifty in number, and all the results of his original observa- 

 tions. They are published in our Proceedings ^ and time 



