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came into the possession of William Jones, F.R.S. (p. 135), and then passed by will to the Earl of Macclesfield. Source D.N.B. 90. THOMAS WILLIAMS, M.D., F.R.S. (1819 ?-65). Thomas Williams, tutor in anatomy at Guy's Hospital and Grainger's School in Webb Street, was the son of a poor clergyman from South Wales, to which he returned when Grainger's School broke up to set up a very successful private practice at Swansea, where he became physician to the Swansea Infirmary. The scientific papers which he published in the Guy's Hospital Reports" classed him as an outstanding investigator, but he left the Hospital on seeing that there was no opening for any higher position than tutor. He died on 23rd May, 1865. He had been elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1858. In 1843 he was awarded a prize offered by the Royal College of Surgeons for an Essay on The Structure and Functions of the Lungs." Source Biographical History of Guy's Hospital. References to original papers 1. On the structure and uses of the stomata. Microsco. Jour., i, 1841, 118. 2. On the pathology of cells. Guy's Hosp. Rep., i, 1843, 423. 3. On the physiology of cells, with a view to elucidate the laws regu- lating the structure and function of glands. (ditto), iv, 1846, 273. 4. On the structure and functions of the branchial organs of the Annelida and Crustacea. Brit. Assoc. Rep., 1848 (pt. 2), 83. 5.; On the physical conditions regulating the vertical distribution of animals in the sea and the atmosphere. (ditto), 83-4. 6. On the physical conditions affecting the distribution of life in the sea and the atmosphere, and the laws of aquatic breathing. Guy's Hosp. Rep., vi, 1849, 67.