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THOMAS RUPERT JONES (1819– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 501 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:RUPERT See also:JONES (1819– )  , See also:English geologist and palaeontologist, was See also:born in See also:London on the 1st of See also:October 1819 . While at a private school at Ilminster, his See also:attention was attracted to See also:geology by the fossils that are so abundant in the See also:Lias quarries . In 1835 he was apprenticed to a surgeon at See also:Taunton, and he completed his See also:apprenticeship in 1842 at See also:Newbury in See also:Berkshire . He was then engaged in practice mainly in London, till in 1849 he was appointed assistant secretary to the See also:Geological Society of London . In 1862 he was made See also:professor of geology at the Royal Military See also:College, See also:Sandhurst . Having devoted his especial attention to fossil microzoa, he now became the highest authority in See also:England on the See also:Foraminifera and See also:Entomostraca . He edited the 2nd edition of See also:Mantell's Medals of Creation (1854), the 3rd edition of Mantell's Geological Excursions See also:round the Isle of See also:Wight (1854), and the 7th edition of Mantell's Wonders of Geology (1857); he also edited the 2nd edition of See also:Dixon's Geology of See also:Sussex (1878) . He was elected F.R.S. in 1872 and was awarded the See also:Lyell See also:medal by the Geological Society in 189o . For many years he was specially interested in the geology of See also:South See also:Africa . His publications include A Monograph of the Entomostraca of the Cretaceous Formation of England (Palaeontograph . See also:Soc., 1849) ; A Monograph of the See also:Tertiary Entomostraca of England (ibid . 1857); A Monograph of the Fossil Estheriae (ibid .

1862); A Monograph of the Foraminifera of the See also:

Crag (ibid . 1866, &c., with H . B . See also:Brady) ; and numerous articles in the See also:Annals and See also:Magazine of Natural See also:History, the Geological Magazine, the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, and other See also:journals .

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