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

1862); A Monograph of the Foraminifera of the

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

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