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See also:- JONES
- JONES, ALFRED GILPIN (1824-1906)
- JONES, EBENEZER (182o-186o)
- JONES, ERNEST CHARLES (1819-1869)
- JONES, HENRY (1831-1899)
- JONES, HENRY ARTHUR (1851- )
- JONES, INIGO (1573-1651)
- JONES, JOHN (c. 1800-1882)
- JONES, MICHAEL (d. 1649)
- JONES, OWEN (1741-1814)
- JONES, OWEN (1809-1874)
- JONES, RICHARD (179o-1855)
- JONES, SIR ALFRED LEWIS (1845-1909)
- JONES, SIR WILLIAM (1746-1794)
- JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
- JONES, WILLIAM (1726-1800)
JONES, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:RUPERT (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.
End of Article: JONES, THOMAS RUPERT (1819– )
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