Edward Percival Wright

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Edward Percival Wright (1834-1910) was an Irish opthalmic surgeon, botanist and zoologist.

Wright studied opthalmic surgery in Vienna, Paris and Berlin.In Berlin he was taught by Hermann Loew's pupil Albrecht von Gräfe. He practised this profession while at the same time Professor of Botany (1869-1904) at Trinity College, Dublin.

Wright made large collections of the fauna and flora of the Seychelles. He also worked with Thomas Henry Huxley on the fossil amphibia of the Kilkenny coal measures. They described the fossils which also included fish and plants in a joint paper published in

He founded and edited the Natural History Review and was a leading member of the Dublin University Zoological Association.

In 1857, went with Haliday on a speleological excursion to Mitchelstown Caves in Co. Galway they published a joint paper.

He joined Alexander Henry Haliday on an entomological expedition to Portugal and two nartural history trips to Sicily, then little known. "I have still a strong harkening for Sicily were it but to set foot on the soil and breathe the air of it". Haliday died shortly after the last trip and Wright became his entomological executor after a twenty year freindship.