Thomas Rymer Jones,FRS (1810 – 10 October 1880) was an English surgeon, academic andzoologist.
Jones was the son of a captain in theRoyal Navy and he studied atGuy's Hospital in Paris. He becameM.R.C.S. in 1833, but found himself unable to practice because of hishearing impairment.
Jones was appointed the first professor ofcomparative anatomy atKing's College London, in 1836, and became theFullerian Professor of Physiology at theRoyal Institution in 1840 to 1842. In 1838, at the meeting of theBritish Association atNewcastle, he was the sole opponent ofChristian Gottfried Ehrenberg, who maintained the polygastric nature of certaininfusoria.
Jones was elected aFellow of the Royal Society. He died in London on 10 December 1880, having resigned his professorship in 1874.
Jones'sGeneral Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy, London, was published with woodcuts, 1838–41. It became a standard textbook. He wrote articles on comparative anatomy forRobert Bentley Todd'sCyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, and popular works on zoology. Jones wrote papers in scientific journals and:
He also editedWilliam Kirby'sBridgewater Treatise, forHenry Bohn's series, in 1852; and a translation of the sectionBirds inBrehms Tierleben, issued asCassell's Book of Birds[1] in 1869–73.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Bettany, George Thomas (1892). "Jones, Thomas Rymer". InLee, Sidney (ed.).Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 177.
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