Thomas Wharton Jones : in memoriam.

  • J. T.
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[1891]
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    Inilammatlon; on the Healing Process; on the Con- tents of the Hepatic Ducts ; on the Anatomy of the Choroid Gland of the Fish's Eye (1838); and on the Muscle as a Neuromagnetic Apparatus (1843). It may also be mentioned that in the year 1833 he published a Manual of Pharmacology, which exhibits the precision, comprehensiveness, and logical method which characterised his later work, lUnstrative of the catholicity of his intellectual tastes and pursuits, it may be mentioned that, in addition to his various contributions to medical and other scienti&c literature, he obtained in 1851 the Actonian prize for an essay on the Wisdom and Beneficence of the Almighty displayed in the Sense of Vision, and in 1858 he published a Catechism of the Physiology and Philosophy of Body, Sense, and Mind, and that in the year 1872 he edited for the Camden Society the life and death of his distinguished ancestral kinsman, Bishop Badell of Kilmore, who perished in the Irish Rebellion of 1641, and of whom Fra Paolo Sarpi, the famous historian of the Council of Trent, declared he had learned more from him than any other divine. In 1876 Mr. Jones published an interesting volume maintaining that the Darwinian doctrine of Evolution is unsanctioned by science. A painful episode of Wharton Jones's early life, about which he never cared to speak, may here be mentioned. In 1827, when but nineteen or twenty years of age, he was, together with the late Sir William Fergusson and Alexander Miller, one of the chief assistants of Robert Knox, the famous extra-mural lecturer on anatomy in Edinburgh. About Christmas, 1827, there died, in the house of a man named Hare, an old pensioner named Donald, owing his landlord about £4. The funeral