General Outline of the Organisation of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy

General Outline of the Organisation of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy

Jones, Thomas Rymer

London: van Voorst, 1855

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1855

George Eliot to Sara Sophia Hennell, Richmond, 19 February [1856]. "What are you doing now? We are delighting ourselves with Ruskin's 3d volume, which contains some of the finest writing I have read for a long time (among recent books). I read it aloud for an hour or so after dinner -- then we jump to the Old Dramatists when Mr. Lewes reads to me as long as his voice will hold out, and after this we wind up the evening with Rymer Jones's Animal Kingdom, by which I get a confused knowledge of branchiae and such things -- perhaps on the whole a little preferable to total ignorance. These are our noctes -- without concern for the present, occasionally diversified by very dramatic singing of Figaro etc. -- which I think must alarm "that good man, the clergyman," who sits below us." GEL 2: 228

Jones, Thomas Rymer, General Outline of the Organisation of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy, George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/57038

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