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Phyllopoda (1888-99). At the same time he determined and 

 ■wrote descriptions of numerous collections of fossil Entomostraca 

 for various Colonial and Foreign Geological Surveys ; and in 1882 

 he prepared a Catalogue of the Fossil Foraminifera in the British 

 Museum. He assisted Dr. W. B. Carpenter in his * Introduction to 

 the Study of the Foraminifera,' published by the Eay Society in 

 1862, and was one of the editors of the ' Micrographic Dictionary.' 

 Prof. Enpert Jones vras also deeply interested in the wider 

 questions of geology and natural history, and devoted much labour 

 to the revision and editing of important general works. After 

 Mantell's death, he published new editions of that author's well- 

 known ' Wonders of Geology ' and ' Medals of Creation,' and 

 between 1865 and 1875 he edited (indeed largely wrote) the 

 * lieliqnioe Aquitanicse,' an exhaustive account of Lartet and Christy's 

 discoveries of Palaeolithic Man in the caves of Central France. In 

 1875 he edited for the Admiralty a 'Manual' of the natural 

 history of Greenland and the neighbouring regions, for the use 

 of the Arctic Expedition of that year. In 1878 he revised and 

 edited Dixon's ' Geology of Sussex,' to which he himself made 

 several original contributions. Finally, it must be added that he 

 was one of the founders of the ' Geological Magazine,' and was 

 joint-editor with Dr. Henry Woodward during its first year. 

 From 1871 onwards, Prof. Rupert Jones took an active part in 

 promoting the investigation of the geology of South Africa. He 

 never visited the country; but he was a careful student of the 

 observations of others, and prepared several notes on their collec- 

 tions which he had examined. He began by annotating the 

 writings of G. W. Stow, and subsequently cooperated with Dr. W. 

 Guybon Atherstone and later observers in analysing their results 

 and attempting to form a broad conception of the structure of the 

 region. The Professor's wide learning and remarkable powers of 

 generalization were, in fact, continually in demand, not only in 

 connexion with South African questions, but also in the study of 

 numerous other geological problems. His ever-cheerful manner 

 and his readiness to give information or advice made him a very 

 real friend at i\eed, and his influence on the progress of geological 

 science is not to be reckoned merely by his own published works. 



Prof. E-upert Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 

 1872, and was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society 

 in 1890. He was President of the Geologists' Association from 

 1879 to 1881, and of Section C (Geology) of the British Association 



