o2i • Washington Stebbt. Boston a, Mas*. 



(Entered at the Post Offloe, Bantam, Mats., 

 as Second Close Mail Matter) 



FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1920 



AUTHORITY OX ORNITHOLOGY 



Horace WInsloiv Wright, Harvard '69, 

 Had Made a Study of Bird Life 



Horace Winsiow Wright, 'known in Boston 

 as an ornithologist, died on Thursday at his 

 summer home at Jefferson Hiiyhlands, N. 

 H. after a brief illness. He was in his 

 seventy-first year. Mr. Wright was born 

 in Boston, but made his home a t Albington, 

 Where he was president of the Public Li- 

 brary and a member of the School Com- 

 mittee for a number of years. He was a 

 graduate of Harvard College in the class 

 of 1869. 



During his frequent visits to Boston and 

 Cambridge, where his brother, Theodore 

 Wright, was formerly a minister in the 

 Church of the New Jerusalem, Mr. Wright 

 made :t his custom to be in the Public 

 Garden at sunrise, in order to study the 

 birds, and he frequently conducted classes 

 about Greater Boston in hunting for cer- 

 tain species. He was an authority on the 

 subject, and wrote several books and 

 pamphlets used by students of ornithology. 

 Mr. Wright wrote also an index, consist- 

 ing of about 250 pages, to the New Jeru- 

 salem Magazine, from 1828 to' 1872, cover- 

 ing forty-four volumes. He never married. 



THE BOSTON HERALD 



SATURDAY, JUNEXl92o" 



j WRIGHT— Suddenly, at Jefferson Highland, 

 I N H, June 3, Horace "Winsiow Wright, in 

 ! his 72d yr. Services at the chapel of the 

 New Church Theological School, corner 

 Quincy and Kirkland sts, at 2 o'clock, 

 I Monday afternoon. 1 



Cambridge Tribune 



SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1920 



Horace Winsiow Wright, -widely 

 known as an ornithologist, who 

 passed away at his summer home 

 ■at Jefferson Highlands, N. H., last 

 week Thursday, was buried on 

 Monday afternoon from the ohaipel 

 of the New Church Theological 

 school, where the services were 

 conducted by Rev. William L 

 Worcester .^resident of the school. 

 A quartet made up of school pupils 

 saing"Fior All the Saints" and Mis's 

 Helen Philbrick as soloist sang, 

 O Rest in the Lord." The body 

 was taken to Mount Auburn Ceme- 

 tery. He was a brother of the late 

 Dean T. F. Wright. 



