In 1810 Dr. Bright, with Dr. (afterwards Sir Henry) Holland, accompanied Sir George Mackenzie in his journey through Iceland, and contributed notes on botany and zoology, as well as other portions, to “Mackenzie’s Travels in Iceland” (Edinburgh, 1811). Mackenzie acknowledges Bright’s cheerful and ready exertion and undeviating good-humour in the many cross accidents that befel the party. Several times the two medical friends were in imminent danger, and we cannot but be thankful that these lights of medicine were spared to do their life-work. Returning from Iceland, Bright’s clinical hospital work was commenced at Guy’s Hospital, London, where he lived in the house of a resident officer for two years, a foretaste of the forty years’ residence which he practically made within its walls. Astley Cooper was then in his best form, and young Bright was at once attracted to pathology and _post mortem_ observation. At this early date he made a drawing of a granular kidney, one of the morbid conditions which he was afterwards to do so much to elucidate. In 1812-13 Bright was again a student at Edinburgh, where Gregory was still in full vigour: and he graduated on the 13th September 1813, producing a thesis on Contagious Erysipelas. With the idea of graduating at Cambridge, he entered at Peterhouse, where his brother was a lay-fellow, but he only resided two terms, finding his studies impeded by college discipline. In 1814 Bright was one of the crowd of English voyagers upon the Continent, and made himself conversant with French and German, attending professional lectures especially at Berlin and Vienna. In the spring of 1815 he travelled considerably in Hungary, and the result of his observations, for he was emphatically an observer, was given to the world in his large quarto volume of “Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary, with Remarks on the State of Vienna during the Congress of 1814,” published at Edinburgh, 1818. This was a most valuable contribution on the social condition, statistics, and natural history of that country, then so little known in England. In all this it is evident how much Dr. Bright’s career was facilitated by the comfortable circumstances in which he was placed pecuniarily: not that money gave him his talent, but that it prevented him from suffering from the obstacles and disadvantages which have attended the career of so many physicians.