Thomas Rymer Jones

Thomas Rymer Jones, FRS (1810 – 10 October 1880) was an English surgeon, academic and zoologist.

Life

The son of a captain in the Royal Navy, he studied at Guy's Hospital and in Paris. He became M.R.C.S. in 1833, but found himself unable to practice because of hearing impairment.

Jones was appointed the first professor of comparative anatomy at King's College London, in 1836, and was Fullerian Professor of Physiology at the Royal Institution in 1840 to 1842. In 1838, at the meeting of the British Association at Newcastle, he was the sole opponent of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, who maintained the polygastric nature of certain infusoria.

Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He died in London on 10 December 1880, having resigned his professorship in 1874.

Works

Jones's General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy, London, was published with woodcuts, 1838–41. It became a standard textbook. He wrote articles on comparative anatomy for Robert Bentley Todd's Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, and popular works on zoology. Jones wrote papers in scientific journals and:

He also edited William Kirby's Bridgewater Treatise, for Henry Bohn's series, in 1852; and a translation of the section Birds in Brehms Tierleben, issued as Cassell's Book of Birds[1] in 1869–73.

References

Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about Thomas Rymer Jones.
  1. "Review: Cassell's Book of Birds". Nature 3: 402–404. 23 March 1871. doi:10.1038/003402a0.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bettany, George Thomas (1892). "Jones, Thomas Rymer". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 177. 

Academic offices
Preceded by
Robert Edmond Grant
Fullerian Professor of Physiology
1840 1844
Succeeded by
William Benjamin Carpenter
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