THE 
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
NEW SERIES. DECADE bl. VOL.) :X, 
No. I—JANUARY, 1893. 
Or GaN Ae, Ale Ben @ se aka SS 2 
I.—Eminent Living Gerotocists. No. 7. 
Professor THomas Rupert Jonzs, F.R.S., F.G.S8., etc. 
(With a Portrait.) 
HE commencement of the thirtieth year of the publication of 
|’ the GrotogicaL MacazineE appears to be an appropriate occasion 
to offer a short account of the life and work of one who for the first 
twelvemonths Edited, with Henry Woodward, this Journal, and has, 
ever since, been one of its most regular contributors. 
Thomas Rupert Jones was born October Ist, 1819, at Wood 
Street, Cheapside, and is the son of John Jones, Silk Merchant and 
Silk Throwster, of London and Taunton, a descendant of the old 
Powys family of North Wales, and Rhoda Jones (née Burberry) of 
Coventry. He was educated at Foster’s, at Taunton, and the Rev. 
John Allen’s, at Ilminster. It was during his schooldays at Mr. 
Allen’s that Rupert Jones was first attracted to a love for geology, 
by observing the Ammonites scattered plentifully about in the 
quarries of the Upper Lias at Ilminster. Curiously enough the late 
Mr. Charles Moore was also led to become an enthusiastic student 
of geology by seeing the same quarries and their fossils, as a school- 
boy, about the same time. Later on, when apprenticed to Mr. Hugh 
Norris, Surgeon, at Taunton, Somerset, in 1835, he observed that 
the walls were built of Lias stone, and contained fossils. Here 
he read with interest ‘“ Parkinson’s Organic Remains of a Former 
World,” which appears to have exercised a powerful influence over 
‘his youthful mind. After the death of Mr. Norris he finished his 
apprenticeship with Dr. Joseph Bunny, of Newbury, Berks, in 1842. 
After some years of medical and scientific education he was, in 
1850, appointed Assistant-Secretary to the Geological Society of 
London; Lecturer on Geology at the Royal Military College, Sand- 
hurst in 1858, was made Professor in 1862, and subsequently also 
appointed to the Staff College. 
He was author of a ‘Monograph of the Cretaceous Entomostraca,”’ 
in 1849; and of “The Tertiary Hntomostraca of England,” in 1856; 
and a Monograph of the Fossil Estherig,” 1862; he wrote the article 
“ Tunicata,” in Todd’s “‘ Cyclopedia of Anatomy,” 1850; and articles 
in Cassell’s ‘Natural History,” “Science for All,” and the “ Hiney- 
clopeedie Dictionary.” Prof. T. R. Jones is also author of numerous 
articles and memoirs on Geology, Paleontology, and Prehistoric 
Man, and especially on recent and fossil Entomostraca and Fora- 
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