WRIGHT, William Janes, mathematician, born in Weybridge, Vermont, 3 August, 1831. He was graduated at Union college in 1857, and studied at Union and Princeton theological seminaries. He was ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian church in 1863, was a chaplain in the National army in 1863-'5, and besides holding various pastorates and spending two years in European study, has been professor of mathematics at Wilson college, Pennsylvania, in 1876-'7, and of metaphysics at Westminster college, Missouri, since 1887. He received the degree of Ph. D. from Union in 1876, and that of LL.D. from Westminster college in 1882. Dr. Wright has published "Tracts on Higher Mathematics," including treatises on determinants, trilinear co-ordinates, and invariants (London, 1875-'9).--His wife, Julia McNair, author, born in Oswego, New York, 1 May, 1840, was the daughter of John McNair, a well-known civil engineer, whose father emigrated from Scotland in 1798. She was educated at private schools and academies, married Dr. Wright in 1859, and has devoted her life mainly to literary work. Her books are mostly religious stories, anti-Catholic. Many of them have been republished in Europe and several have been translated into Arabic. Her works include " Priest and Nun " (1869) ; "Jug-or-Not" (New York, 1870); "Saints and Sinners" (Philadelphia, 1873); "The Early Church in Britain" (1874); "Bricks from Babel," a manual of ethnography (1876) ; "The Complete Home" (1879) ; "A Wife Hard Won," a novel (1882); and "The Nature Readers " (3 vols., Boston, 1887-'8).