THE LATE HR. T. WRIGHT. 
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Hygrophorus ceraceus 
,, psittaciuus 
Lactarius turpis 
,, controversus 
„ pyrogalus 
,, pallidus 
,, quietus 
,, glyciosmus 
„ mitissimus 
,, subdulcis 
,, camphoratus 
Russula nigricans 
,, depallens 
,, cyanoxantha 
„ consobrina 
,, var. sororia 
,, foetens 
,, fellea 
,, ochroleuca 
„ fragilis 
,, integra 
Russula alutacea 
Marasmius peronatus 
,, rotula 
Lentinus cochleatus 
Boletus luteus 
,, flavus 
,, parasiticus 
,, chrysenteron 
,, pacliypus 
,, edulis 
,, luridus 
,, scaber 
Polvporus versicolor 
Sterium liirsutum 
Peziza badia 
Coniceps militaris 
James E. Bagnall. 
THE LATE DR. T. WRIGHT, M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S. 
Dr. T. Wright, M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., Medical Officer of Health for 
the town of Cheltenham, and president of the Cheltenham Natural 
Science Society, after a long and painful illness, died at his residence, 
in St. Margaret’s Terrace, on the night of November 17th, in the 
seventy-sixth year of his age. 
He was born at Paisley, Renfrewshire, N.B., on November 9tli, 
1809, and educated at the Grammar School of that town, being subse¬ 
quently articled to his brother-in-law, a surgeon and general prac¬ 
titioner. After the completion of his articles he proceeded to Ireland, 
and entered as an anatomical and surgical student in the Royal College 
of Surgeons, Dublin, where he became the pupil of Professors Jacob 
and Harrison and Drs. Benson and Houston in anatomy, and Pro¬ 
fessors Colles and Willmot in surgery. He subsequently entered the 
Peter Street Anatomical School, under Messrs. Kirby and Ellis, where 
he was selected as assistant demonstrator; all the preparations and 
dissections for Professor Ellis’s lectures being made by him. 
He became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, in 
1832, and graduated at the University of St. Andrews in 1834 : shortly 
after which he settled in Cheltenham, where his life was subsequently 
passed in the active practice of his profession. He was elected 
surgeon to the Cheltenham Dispensary, continuing so for fifteen years, 
and for twenty years was surgeon to the General Hospital. When the 
