Thomas Wharton Jones : in memoriam.

  • J. T.
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[1891]
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    IN MEMORIAM. THOMAS WHAJITON JONES, F.R.S. By the death of Mr. Wharton Jones, on the 7th inst,, in the eighty fourth year of his age, we have lost the living presence of one of England's greatest physiologists. His fame will abide, and even increase, when the circumstances and influences amid which his reputation was at once made and thwarted become more remote, and lapse into the impartial domain of medical history. Indeed, his scientific work is historical already ; for there are few persons now living who witnessed^ his earlier and more famous biological researches and discoveries. Thomas Wharton Jones was born at St. Andrews in January, 1808, his father, a native of London, being at the time one of the secretaries of His Majesty's Customs for Scot- land. On his father's side he was descended from a wealthy Shropshire family, and on his mother's side from an old English family, named Allisbon or EUiston, of Essex and Kent, and from the family of Philipps of Chesham. The EUistons sprang from one Alesban, a freeman, whose lands in several parishes in the county of Essex were, according to Domesday Book, confiscated at the Con- quest. By a combination of unfortunate circumstances, vety little, if any, of either the paternal or the maternal