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Wright was a keen traveller spending most vacations on the continent of Europe collecting natural history specimens and in 1867 he spent six months in the
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441:(1860) Wright, E.P. 1860 Notes on the Irish nudibranchiata.
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517:(1870). Six months at the Seychelles.
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420:(1855) Catalogue of British Mollusca.
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