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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name         = Edward Perceval
| name               = Wright
| honorific_prefix   = Prof. 
| honorific_suffix   = MD, MA, FLS, MRSA 
| image              = File:Wright,_Edward_Perceval.jpg
| birth_date         = 1834
| death_date         = 1910
| address            = Seychelle and Comoro Islands [1867]<br />Seychelle Islands, Mobe [1867 list]<br />5 Trinity College, Dublin [1881]
| occupation         = medical<br />botanist<br />zoologist
| elected_ESL        = 
| elected_ASL        = 1867.04.16
| elected_AI         = 1881.11.08
| elected_APS        = 
| elected_LAS        = 
| membership         = ASL Local Secretary for the Seychelle and Comoro Islands<br />AI ordinary fellow
| left               = 1894.01 last listed
| clubs              = 
| societies          = Linnean Society of London<br />Geological Society
}}
== Notes ==
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=== House Notes ===
proposed 1867.04.02 ASL<br />1881.10.25 proposed AI<br /><br />Prof. of Botany and Director of the Museum, Dublin University
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Edward Percival (Perceval) Wright (1834, Donnybrook – 1910) FRGSI was an Irish ophthalmic surgeon, botanist and zoologist.<br />in 1867 he spent six months in the Seychelles making large collections of the fauna and flora. Some animals, for instance the Whale shark were studied in depth
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
(1855) Catalogue of British Mollusca. Natural History Review Society (Proceedings of Societies) 2: 69–85. (1859) Notes on the Irish nudibranchiata. Natural History Review Society (Proceedings of Societies) 6: 86–88. (1859) with Greene, J.R. 1859 Report on the marine fauna of the south and west coasts of Ireland. Report for the British Association for the Advancement of Science : 176–181 (1860) Wright, E.P. 1860 Notes on the Irish nudibranchiata. Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin 2: 135–137. (1864) Translation of F. C. Donders's The Pathogeny of Squint (1864) (1865) A modification of Liebreich's ophthalmoscope in ? (1865) Notes on Colias edusa. Proceedings of the Dublin Natural History Society 5: 7–8. (1866) with Huxley, T. H. On a collection of fossils from the Jarrow Colliery, Kilkenny Geological Magazine, v. 3, p. 165–171. (1867) with Huxley,T.H. On a Collection of Fossil Vertebrata from the Jarrow Colliery County Kilkenny Ireland. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy Vol. 24 – Science. (1867) Remarks on freshwater rhizopods Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, new ser., v. 7, p. 174–175. (1868) Notes on the bats of the Seychelles group of islands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (1868) Notes on Irish sponges. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 10: 221–228. (1870). Six months at the Seychelles. Spicilegia Zoologica, Dublin 1, 64–65. (1872) English translation and revision of Louis Figuier The ocean world. New York: D. Appleton.(Louis Figuier was a prolific writer on scientific and technological matters for the general public. Much of the scientific information in the novels of Jules Verne was taken from his work. Wright's translations earned substantial royalties). (1875) English translation and revision of Louis Figuier Mammalia, Their Various Forms and Habits London, Cassell & Company, Ltd. Reprinted until 1892. (1877). On a new genus and species of sponge Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, ser. 2, v. 2, p. 754–757, pl. 40. (1889) with Studer, T. Report on the Alcyonaria -Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger Zoology 31, i–lxxvii + 1.– 314. (1896) The herbarium of Trinity College, a retrospect Notes from the Botanical School of Trinity College, Dublin, 1, 1–14<br /><br />
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