> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 467](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066807) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11882-1) LSID 11882-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5344827) QID Q5344827 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wright, Edward Perceval (1834-1910), Irish naturalist; MA Dublin 1857, MD ib. 1862; lecturer in zoology Trinity College, Dublin 1858-1868; professor of botany ib. 1869-1904; keeper of TCD 1870-1910; collected on the Seychelles 1867, in Sicily and Portugal 1868. **Abbreviated name**: *E. Wright* \[standard form in IPNI: *E.P.Wright*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection TCD|TCD]]. – Further material at [[Collection BM|BM]] (Seychelles), [[Collection FRS|FRS]], [[Collection K|K]] (Seychelles), [[Collection MO|MO]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection K|K]]. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 523 (b. 27 Dec 1834, d. 4 Mar 1910); BB p. 376; BM 5: 2364; Clokie p. 268; CSP 6: 442, 8: 1277-1278, 11: 856-857, 19: 722; Desmond p. 678-679; De Toni 1: cxxxiv-cxxxv; DSB suppl. 3: 709-710; Herder p. 214; Jackson p. 157, 353; LS 29365-29369; Morren ed. 2, p. 23; Rehder 5: 933; Tucker 1: 755. #### Biofile - Anon., Bot. Centralbl. 113: 464. 1910 (d.); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print, books 261: 363-364. 1965; Flora 52: 144. 1869 (prof. bot. TCD); Nat. Nov. 26: 253. 1904, 32: 209. 1910 (d.); Nature 83: 73-74. 1910 (obit.); Not. Bot. School. Trin. Coll. Dublin 2: 91-97. 1910 (obit., portr., list publ.); Österr. bot. Z. 19: 162. 1869 (prof. bot. TCD), 60: 167. 1910 (d.); Science ser. 2. 31: 454. 1910 (d.); Who's who London 1897-1910; Who was who London 1897-1915. 782. 1935. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 123.1. 1980. - Britton, J., J. Bot. 49: 123-124. 1911. - Crone, J.S., Concise Dict. Irish biogr. 268. 1937. - Dixon, H.H., Irish Naturalist 19: 61-63. 1910 (obit., portr.); Proc. Linn. Soc. 122: 102-104. 1910 (obit.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 87. 1957. - Kent, D.H. & D.E. Allen, Brit. Irish herb. 279. 1984 (coll.). - Praeger, R.L., Some Irish naturalists 179, *pl. 15.* 1949. - Toni, G.B. de, Nuova Notarisia 21: 166-167. 1910. - VanLandingham, S.L., Cat. Diat. 4: 2384. 1971, 6: 3603. 1978. - Wright, E.P., Notes Bot. School Trinity College 1: 1-14. 1896 (account herb. TCD). #### Composite works Editor, *Natural History Review*, London & Dublin, vols. 1-7, \[1853-\] 1854-1860, ser. 2. 1-5. 1861-1865. #### Eponymy *Wrightiella* Schmitz (1893). ### Publications ##### n.18.346. Contributions towards a knowledge of the flora of the Seychelles **Title** *Contributions towards a knowledge of the flora of the Seychelles*... Dublin (printed by M.H. Gill,...) 1869. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1869 (read 14 Dec 1868), p. \[i\], \[571\]-577, \[578, expl. pl.\], *pl. 27-30* (uncol. liths. W.H. Fitch). *Copy*: HH. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. R. Irish Academy, 24 (Sci. 13): 571-578. 1869. ##### n.18.347. Spicilegia phycologica **Title** *Spicilegia phycologica*... Dublin (The Herbarium, Trinity College) 1879. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: Aug 1877 and Jan 1879 (Spicilegia Jan 1879; see below), p. \[i\], \[1\]-62, *pl. 1-6.* *Copies*: G, H, US. – Contains: *1*: Aug 1877 (erroneously Aug 1879 on reprint cover), *On a new species of parasitic green algae*... preprinted from Trans. R. Irish Acad. 26(8): 355-358. *pl. 1-2.* 1879. *2*: Aug 1877 (id.). – *On a species of Rhizophydium*... id. 26: 369-380, *pl. 3.* 1879. *3*: Jan 1879 (sic, printed Jul 1878, publ. Jan 1879. – *On the Cell-structure of Griffithsia* *setacea*. – Id. 26: 491-510, *pl. 4-5.* 1879. *4*: Jan 1879 (id.). *On the formation of the so-called "Siphons"... in Polysiphonia*. – Id. 26: 511-526, *pl. 6.* 1879. *Note*: FH has copies of the original publication in the Transactions of these four papers, with the reprint pagination and journal covers: nos. 1 and 2 in Trans. 26, papers 1 and 2, p. \[i\], \[1\]-26, *pl. 1-3*, journal cover dated "August 1877" \[sic, not 1879 as on Spicilegia t.p.\], and nos. 3 and 4 (papers 18 and 19 in journal volume), p. 27-46, *pl. 4-5*, p. 47-62, *pl. 6.* Jan 1879 \[text printed Jul 1878; plates Jun 1879\]. ##### n.18.348. On Blodgettia confervoides **Title** III. *On Blodgettia confervoides* of Harvey, forming a new genus and species of fungi ... IV. On a new genus and species of unicellular algae, living on the filaments of Rhizoclonium Casparyi... Dublin (published by the Academy,...) 1881. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: Feb 1881 (date on journal cover), cover-t.p., p. 21-26, *pl. 2*, p. 27-30. Copy: FH. – Issued as and to be cited from Trans. R. Irish Acad. 28, Sci. 21-30, *pl. 2.* 1881.