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Authorised form of nameJones; Thomas Rymer (1810 - 1880); morphologist and physiologist
Dates1810 - 1880
NationalityBritish
Place of birthWhitby, England
Date of birth20 March 1810
Place of death22 Castletown Road, Barons Court, West Kensington, London, England
Date of death10 December 1880
OccupationMorphologist and physiologist
Research fieldPhysiology
Comparative anatomy
Anatomy
ActivityEducation:
King's College, London, as one of the first students to attend the newly formed medical department (1831); Guy's Hospital, London; College of Surgeons (1831)
Career:
Demonstrator of anatomy at King's College, London (1835); Professor of Comparative Anatomy, King's College, London (1836-1874); Fullerian Professor of Physiology, Royal Institution, London (1840-1842); died from heart disease (1880).
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election21/03/1844
Age at election34
ProposerWilliam Sharpey
John Gould
George Budd
Richard Partridge
David Thomas Ansted
Robert Bentley Todd
John Edward Gray
William Bowman
James Clark Ross
Richard Owen
John Bostock
John Hilton
William Clark
RelationshipsParents: Thomas Jones, a captain in the navy, and Margaret.
Spouse: Elizabeth Neville Jones.
PublishedWorksRCN 21925
RCN 46365
RCN 9988
RCN 46366
RCN 46367
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Jones T R, IM Maull 002452.jpg

SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/91941307
CodeNA808
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1844/11Jones, Thomas Rymer: certificate of election to the Royal Society
IM/Maull/002452Jones, Thomas Rymernd
RR/1/224Referee's report by Thomas Rymer Jones, on two papers 'On the mechanism of respiration' and 'On the blow-hole of the porpoise' by Francis Sibson7 May 1846
RR/1/69Referee's report by Thomas Rymer Jones, on a paper 'On motion in the lumbar division of the spine in birds' by George Oakley Fleming[1843]
MC/6Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1859-1863
MC/6/370Letter from T [Thomas] Rymer Jones, Athenaeum, to Walter White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]27 November 1863
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