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neighbourhood, and during his subsequent residence at Taunton he 

 had the opportunity of reading Parkinson's ' Organic Remains/ 

 ivhich definitely turned his attention to geological studies. At the 

 end of his apprenticeship in 1842, he began medical practice in 

 London, but his interest in purely scientific work soon led him to 

 seek a more congenial sphere. Among others, he made the 

 acquaintance of a well-known conchologist, Mr. John Pickering, 

 who employed him at times in sorting small shells from beach- 

 material ; and during this work he noticed the associated Foramini- 

 fera and carapaces of Entomostraca, about which he could obtain 

 Tery little information. His curiosity was so much excited by 

 these minute remains that he began to make detailed studies of 

 them, and they continued to form the principal subject of his 

 •original researches during the remainder of his life. Yery soon 

 he formed a friendship with a neighbouring medit3al practitioner, 

 the late William Kitchen Parker, who was similarly examining 

 Poraminifera, and five years after his settling in London he joined 

 the small party of geologists and naturalists who held frequent 

 meetings at the house of John Morris. 



By the year 1849, Eupert Jones was established in the scientific 

 world of London, and he now contributed to the Palseontographical 

 Society's publications a ' Monograph of the Entomostraca of the 

 ■Cretaceous Formation of England.' In the following year he was 

 appointed Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society, and he 

 Tield this office until 1862, when he became Professor of Geology 

 at the Ptoyal Military College, Sandhurst. He was subsequently 

 Professor at the Staff College, and finally retired from Sandhurst in 

 1880. 



Prof. Pupert Jones was elected a Fellow of the Geological 

 'Society in 1852, and made his first contribution to the ' Quarterly 

 Journal' in the following year, on some Carboniferous Entomo- 

 straca collected by Daniel Sharpe near Bussaco in Portugal. In 

 1856 he wrote on Estheria minuta and determined the wide 

 •distribution of species of Estheria in geological formations ; and 

 during the rest of his active life he read before the Society frequent 

 notes and papers on both Entomostraca and Foraminifera. He 

 also prepared for the Palseontographical Society Monographs of 

 the Tertiary Entomostraca of England (1856) and the Fossil 

 Estheriae (1862), and he cooperated with others in contributing to 

 the same Society Monographs on Crag Foraminifera (1866-97), on 

 Carboniferous Entomostraca (1874-84), and on British Palaeozoic 



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