THE 
AMERICAN GEOLOGIST. 
VOL. XXXVI. AUGUST, 1905. No 2. 
ALBERT ALLEN WRIGHT. 
By Prof. G. F. Wright, Oberlin, Ohio. 
PORTRAIT— PLATE III. 
On the afternoon of Saturday, April 1, 1905, professor 
Albert Allen Wright was about his usual duties, but upon 
going to his study upon his wheel was suddenly seized with 
spasms of pain which, after continuing for twenty-four 
hours, ended in his death, upon Sunday afternoon. For 
some years professor Wright had suffered more or less from 
ill health, for which physicians found it difficult to account. 
A year of rest upon the Pacific coast in 1900 failed to bring 
the expected relief, but partial relief was found in a severe 
course of dieting. The mystery, however, was solved by a 
post-mortem examination, which showed that, as a result of 
an illness many years before, there was an adhesion between 
the stomach, liver, and gall bladder, which suddenly gave 
way, producing acute peritonitis. Thus closed the earthly 
career of a most accomplished geologist and naturalist, a 
broad-minded student of science in general, a successful 
teacher, an efficient man of practical affairs, and a devout 
Christian of such delightful personality that he won the 
regard of every one who came in contact with him.. 
As so many persons have supposed that professor 
Wright and I were brothers, it is well to say, at the outset, 
that we were not, and that our relationship, if any, was so 
distant that it has not been traced. But twenty-five years 
of close association with him in college work and much 
longer general acquaintance had drawn me to him as to a 
brother, while his judgment in scientific affairs was so 
sound and unerring that I felt impelled to seek it at every 
stage of my own work. 
