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IT is perhaps hardly sufficiently recognised how much the progress of science has been helped by the leisure-hour occupations of busy professional men. No branch of science has profited more from this source than geology, and no calling has furnished so many helpful labourers as medicine. The career of Dr. Wright, whose recent death is so sincerely regretted, supplies one of the most notable examples of a life apparently absorbed in the laborious duties of a medical practitioner, yet wherein time was found for the pursuit of a long series of original and valuable researches in palaeontology. To those who knew him only as a doctor, it might well seem that his whole time and thought were given to the duties of his medical practice. Those, on the other hand, who met him as a geologist and palæontologist could hardly realise that he had any other occupation than the study of the fossils which he treasured and described with such enthusiasm.
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G., A. Thomas Wright, M.D., F.R.S. . Nature 31, 103–104 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031103d0
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