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whence it was derived, and its stratigraphical distribution accurately 

 defined, both in English and Continental rocks. These works have 

 occupied all his leisure hours for the last thirty years. Much of this 

 time was devoted to the collection of specimens, the examination of 

 private cabinets and those in British and foreign museums, in order 

 to compare all the British species with continental forms, and thus 

 to bring each one to the crucial test of a critical and personal 

 examination. He made many journeys to the Continent to visit the 

 grand collections in Paris, Stuttgart, and Tiibingen in Germany, 

 and those in the Geneva Museum, and in that of Zurich, Switzerland. 

 The accomplishment of this self-imposed task has been the pleasure 

 and delight of his life. For these works, and other memoirs on 

 geology published in the Quarterly Journal, the Council of the Geolo- 

 gical Society awarded him the WoUaston Medal in 1878. 



Dr. Wright was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 

 in 1855, a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1859, and a Fellow of 

 the Royal Society of London in 1879. For many years he filled the 

 post of Medical Ofiicer of Health for Cheltenham, Charlton Kings, 

 and Leckhampton. 



Referring to the sad losses which our science sustained at the 

 close of 1884, in the deaths of Mr. Godwin-Austen; Dr. Wright; 

 Prof. James Buckman ; Mr. Alfred Tylor ; and Mr. Searles V. 

 Wood ; all of them Fellows of the Geological Society, Prof. 

 Edward Hull, F.R.S., writes : — " Dr. Wright was one of that 

 small band of local geologists, who, like Charles Moore of Bath ; 

 Dr. Lycett of Minchinhampton ; G. W. Ormerod of Cheshire ; and 

 Edward Binney of Manchester; have made their respective habitats, 

 to use a scientific term, as household words amongst geologists, and 

 have largely contributed to the general advancement of our know- 

 ledge of Natural History." 



The following is a List of his Geological Papers and Mono- 

 graphs : — 



A Stratigraphical Account of the Sections from Round Tower Point to Alum Bay, 



on the N.W. Coast of the Isle of Wight. Ann. Mag. Hist. 1851, vol. vii. pp. 



14-27 ; Cotswold Club Proc. 1853, vol. i. pp. 87-100. 

 On the ati-omhidm of the Oolites (with the description of a new and remarkable 



Flerocei-as, by John Lycett). Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. vol. vii. pp. 30b"-310; 



Cotswold Club Proc. 1853, vol. i. pp. 115-119. 

 A Stratigraphical Account of the Sections of Hordwell Beacon, and Barton Cliffs, 



on the Coast of Hampshire. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1851, vol. vii. pp. 



433-446 ; Cotswold Club Proc. 1853, vnl. i. pp. 120-133. 

 On the Cidaridce of the Oolites, with a Description of some New Species of that 



Family. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1851, vol. viii. pp. 241-280; Cotswold 



Club Proc. 1853, vol. i. pp. 134-173. 

 On the Cnssidulidce of the Oolites, with Descriptions of some New Species of that 



Family. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 1852, vol. ix. pp. 81-103, 206-214, 



294-316 ; Cotswold Club Proc. 1853, vol. i. pp. 174-226. 

 Contributions to the Palaeontology of the Isle ot Wight. Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. 1852, vol. X. pp. 87-93 ; Cotswold Club Proc. 1853, vol. i. pp. 229-234. 

 Contributions to the PaUeontology of Crloucestershire. A Description of some New 



Species of Echinodermata from the Lias and Oolites. Ann. and Mag. Nat. 



Hist. 1854, pp. 161-173, 312-324, 376-383; Cotswold Club Proc. 1860, vol. 



ii. pp. 17-48. 



