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Having been elected one of the Improvement Commissioners in 
1853 he applied himself to solve many sanitary problems, while his 
advice was invaluable respecting the best method of obtaining water 
for the requirements of the town from the pure sources in the 
Cotteswold Hills instead of from the more polluted Severn. In 3873 
he was offered and accepted the post of Medical Officer of Health for 
Cheltenham, Charlton Kings, and Leckhampton, on terms which 
rendered it necessary for him to retire from private practice. 
In 1877, when the Cheltenham Natural Science Society was 
instituted, he was unanimously elected as its first President, and at 
each annual meeting this selection has been re-endorsed. Under his 
auspices this Society has flourished and now numbers nearly 100 
members, by one and all of whom he will be greatly missed. Not only 
will it be difficult to supply his place in an adequate manner, but also 
as an authority on the geological formations of Gloucester he had no 
equal, while his works on Echinoderms and Ammonites are universally 
admitted to be the best monographs which have appeared on these 
subjects. 
On the occasion of the visit of the Midland Union of Natural 
History Societies to Cheltenham, in 1881, he was elected President, 
and delivered an able and important address on “ The Physiography 
and Geology of the Country round Cheltenham.” 
It is to be hoped that the splendid collections of fossils which he 
has left behind him will find their way into some public museum. 
His funeral was attended, as a mark of respect and esteem, by the 
Mayor and Town Council of Cheltenham, the members of the medical 
profession of the town, and also of Gloucester, the members of the 
Natural Science Society, the President and Secretary of the Cottes¬ 
wold Field Club, and many of the local residents of Cheltenham and 
its vicinity. 
Dr. Wright leaves behind him one son and two daughters, the 
elder of whom is married to E. Wetliered, Esq., F.G.S., E.C.S., and 
the younger to the Rev. C. Wilcox, Yicar of Exton-Normanby. 
The following are some of the more important works and papers on 
Natural Science which were published by Dr. Wright. At first he 
confined himself to his favourite study of Comparative Anatomy, and 
wrote a memoir on a rare British Dolphin, Delphinus tursio; next a 
paper on Dr. Buckland’s theory of the action of the siphuncle 
in the pearly nautilus, Nautilus pompilius; “On the Comparative 
Structure of the Skeletons of Zoophytes”; “An Outline of the 
Comparative Structure of the Organs of Locomotion in Radiated 
Animals”; “On the Comparative Anatomy of the Organs of Vision 
in the Auimal Kingdom”; “On the Maxillary Poison Glands of 
Grophilus longicornis ; and in 1855 a translation, greatly enlarged, of 
Agassiz and Gould’s “ Outlines of Comparative Physiology.” 
In 1850, “ A Stratigrapliical Account of the Section of the North- 
West Coast of the Isle of Wight.” In 1851, “A Stratigrapliical 
Account of the Section of Hordwell, on the Hampshire Coast ” ; “ On 
