Thomas Rupert Jones
Thomas Rupert Jones (born October 1, 1819 in London , † April 13, 1911 ) was a British geologist and paleontologist.
Jones was the son of a silk merchant and started on the private school in Ilminster ( Somerset ) for fossils from the Lias to care around. He began his surgeon training in Taunton in 1835 and later in Newbury , graduating in 1842. He then had a practice in London. In 1849 he became Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society of London and in 1862 Professor of Geology at the Royal Military College , Sandhurst .
He dealt mainly with micropaleontology , especially foraminifera and crustaceans (lower crustaceans, entomostraca ). Several first descriptions come from him, for example the conchostrake Euestheria brodieana (Jones 1862). He also dealt with the geology of South Africa ( Karoo main basin ). He was friends with Fridolin von Sandberger , from whom he also received Conchostraken from his own collections and from the Ernst Hassencamp collection (area around Fulda) for processing.
In 1890 he received the Lyell Medal . In 1872 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society .
Fonts
- with William Benjamin Carpenter , William Kitchen Parker : Introduction to the study of the Foraminifera. London 1862
- Synopsis of the Karoo Beds. In: Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, Volume 23, 1867, pp. 142-144
- Note on ESTHERIA MINUTA. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 12, Proceedings of the Geological Society, London 1856, pp. 376-377
- A Monograph of the Fossil Estheriae. Palaeontographical Society, London 1862
- On Fossil Estheriae and their Distribution. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19, 1863, pp. 140–157,
- On some fossil Estheriae. The Geological Magazine, ns, Volume 7, No. 9, 1890, pp. 385-390, Pl. XII
- On some more fossil Estheriae. The Geological Magazine, ns, Volume 8, No. 2, 1891, pp. 49-57, Pl. II
- On some fossil Entomostraca from South America. Part I. The Geological Magazine, ns, Volume 4, No. 6, 1897, pp. 259-265.
- On some fossil Entomostraca from South America. Part II. The Geological Magazine, ns, Volume 4, No. 7, 1897, pp. 289-293, Pl. X-XI.
- with Henry Bowman Brady : A Monograph of Foraminifera of the Crag. Palaeontographical Society 1866
- A Monograph of the Entomostraca of the Cretaceous Formation of England. Palaeontographical Society 1849
- A Monograph of the Tertiary Entomostraca of England. Palaeontographical Society 1857
He also got new editions of books by Gideon Mantell ( Wonders of Geology. 7th edition 1857, Medals of Creation. 2nd edition 1854, Geological Excursions round the Isle of Wight. 3rd edition 1854) and Frederick Dixon ( Geology of Sussex. 2 . Edition 1878).
Web links
- Article on Jones, Encyclopedia Britannica 1911, wikisource
- Literature by and about Thomas Rupert Jones in the WorldCat bibliographic database
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| SURNAME | Jones, Thomas Rupert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British paleontologist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1911 |