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and stimulating their efforts, he rendered them every 
assistance in his power, and his library was ever at their 
service. In this respect alone his death creates a blank 
which it will be impossible to fill—W. H. H. 
II1.—Cnarits Aucustus WRIGHT. 
Ir is with great regret that we have to announce the death 
of Mr. Cuartus Avevustus Wriext, of Kayhough, Kew 
Gardens Road, in his 74th year. The son of Mr. John 
Wright, of Cumberland Terrace, Regent’s Park, he was 
born on April 2nd, 1834, and before the age of thirty settled 
in the island of Malta, where, during a residence of more 
than twelve years, he oceupied himself in working at the 
Natural History of the group. As founder and Editor of 
the ‘Malta Times,’ he took a large part in the politics of 
the day, while as special Mediterranean correspondent 
of <The (London) Times’ he was the author of various 
articles on naval matters. He was by no means neglectful 
of the antiquities and fossils of Malta, and was at one time 
Vice-President of its Archeological Society; but his chief 
bent was in the direction of Ornithology, Conchology, and 
Botany, in all of which branches of science he amassed large 
collections. He was a Fellow of the Linnean and Zoological 
Societies, and a member of various local bodies, while he was 
elected to our Union in 1875, on his final return from the 
Mediterranean. The Order of Knight of the Crown of Italy 
was subsequently conferred on him, in 1883, in recognition 
of his ornithological studies. 
Mr. Wright was one of the very early contributors to ‘The 
Ibis,’ and furnished it with several important papers on the 
Birds of Malta and Gozo between 1863 and 1874, the first 
being an account of a visit to the islet of Filfila. He also 
wrote in Maltese on “ Birds observed in Malta and Gozo” 
for the ‘Maltese Encyclopedia of Natural History geen 
1862, and published an article in the ° Proceedings’ of the 
Zoological Society of London for 1875 on the peculiar 
Weasel of the island, while he was recognised as the greatest 
authority on the Natural History of the group. 
