Thomas Wharton Jones : in memoriam.

  • J. T.
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[1891]
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    ^s'as appointed Emeritus Professor. He tlien retired to Ventnor, wliere lie lived up to the time of his death, continuing, however, his favourite studies, especially those relating to the physiology and pathology of the circulation of the hlood and of the state of the bloodvessels in inflam- mation. He also thought and wrote much on political and ecclesiastical history, and on gynaecology. He wrote also a history of the Irish Rebellion of 1641. This history has not been published, though a portion of it appeared about three years ago, entitled Rule in Ireland from St. Patrick to Cromwell. His studies of Irish history led him to regard with great disfavour any proposal for Home Rule. He was a foreign member of the medical societies of Vienna and Copenhagen, and of the Soci6t6 de Biologie of Paris. Wharton Jones lived a long, full, and useful life. Sixty-one years ago he published a synopsis of a course of lectures on physiology and anatomy, and within the last few months he issued an interesting report on the State of the Blood and Bloodvessels in Inflammation, in which he acutely criticised a part of the modern doctrine of Inflammation and its advocates. The long interval between these two publications was one of unceasing intellectual activity, of scientific and historical research, of polemics, and of public professional labour. His published writings are widely scattered, but the following are the more important of those relating to anatomy and physiology. In 1835 he read a paper to the Royal Society, containing an account of his discovery of the genninal vesicle in the mammiferous ovum. About a year before this Coste had observed the germinal vesicle in the rabbit; but Jones's observations were certainly made without knowledge of Coste's. In 1837 he published in the Philosophical Transactions a paper on