William Crookes,
Bence Jones
(1773)
“ WE have to announce the death, on the 20th inst., after a long, and latterly, severe illness, of Dr. Bence Jones, the Secretary to the Royal Institution. Dr. Jones was a distinguished chemist ; among his contributions to the advancement of science may be mentioned his Croonian Lectures "On Matter and Force," "Animal Chemistry in relation to Stomach and Renal Diseases," "Lectures on Pathology and Therapeutics," &c. His treatise on the early history of the Royal Institution, and his valuable biography of Faraday, are amongst the latest of his works. ”
