# John Wright FZS

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Colleagues might enjoy a discussion I started on en.Wikipedia, to try to disambiguate John Wright FZS, who edited and expanded Buffon’s _Natural History of the Globe and of Man…_ in 1831, from others of that same name.

He is on BHL with creator ID 224776.

The copy of the work I linked to form that discussion is on ABE and has a beautiful edge painting, if anyone has ~£800 they would like to spend on me…

> **[Wikipedia:Reference desk/HumanitiesApril 8April 9April 11April 12April 13April 14April 16April 18April 19April 21April 22 | John Wright, FZS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#John_Wright,_FZS)**
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> John Wright (Q139499234): zoologist, writer, F.Z.S., edited and expanded this edition of Buffon's Natural History of the Globe and of Man..., dated 1831. He...