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DR. W. B. WRIGHT, lately of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, died on October 11 at the age of sixty-three years. Wright received his university training at Trinity College, Dublin, which in 1928 honoured him with the Sc.D. He approached geology through mathematics, being attracted by Croll's astronomical theory of ice ages. He joined the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland in 1901, and to begin with had the good fortune to work in the Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Limerick districts under the inspiring leadership of the great glacialist Lamplugh. During these early years Wright's most original contribution was a joint account with Maufe, published in 1904, of a low pre-Glacial raised beach preserved at many points around Ireland. A similar feature had long been familiar to geologists on both sides of the English Channel and in South Wales and Yorkshire.
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BAILEY, E. Dr. W. B. Wright. Nature 144, 775–776 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144775a0
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