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Papilio, Entomological Nezvs, and Edwards' Butterflies of 

 North America; I think the most important contribution which 

 he made to science was the help he rendered to W. H. Edwards, 

 in his great work just mentioned. In the Ornithologist and 

 Oologist, for February, 1885, we find an article entitled, "An 

 Experiment in Bird Taming, with Phainopcpla nitens' ; hife 

 name is frequent in the two large volumes of the Geological 

 Survey, Botany of California, as he was an enthusiastic botani- 

 cal collector. In fact he was a naturalist in the strict sense ; they 

 are becoming rarer every day. His book, Butterflies of the 

 West Coast, published in San Francisco in October, 1905, was 

 really an epoch-making publication, notwithstanding the numer- 

 ous inevitable mistakes. The fire and earthquake of April 18, 

 1906, destroyed the publishing house, and the book is now 

 quite rare. 



Wright was a close friend of the two pioneer naturali§J:s, 

 Edward Palmer and C. C. Parry, and made many trips with 

 them. He was acquainted with many more, if not most, of the 

 early naturalists, but the data are not now obtainable. 



The following butterflies and moths have been named in his 

 honor by different entomologists : Melitaea ix^rightii, Co- 

 paeodes zvrightii, Scepsis zvrightii, Gluphisia ivrightii, Lep- 

 tarctia zvrightii and Selidosema zurightiarium. Wright named 

 many species, but most of them, especially those in his 1905 

 book, are synonyms. 



W. G. Wright has played his part, doubtless as well as he 

 knew ; he has added something to science, and has helped 

 others in their researches, which is as much as any one can do. 

 The following quotation from his book expresses the spirit 

 of all scientific work: "The most that we can do is to note 

 down the things as we find them, and an aggregation of these 

 notes after a series of years will afford a distinct step forward 

 in the investigation." — Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., Pasadena, Gal. 



I visited him several years ago, an account of which I pub- 

 lished in the pages of this magazine, \'olume XXII, pages 

 11-13. He was a kindly man, and was known and loved by 

 all the children of San Bernardino. — Karl R. Coolidge. 



