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J. Knox Jones
1929–1992
A leading mammalogist and university builder, he helped shape modern research on North American mammals while also strengthening Texas Tech as a major academic institution. His career joined fieldwork, publishing, teaching, and scientific leadership in a way that left a long mark on natural history.
13 Audiobooks
Distribution of Some Nebraskan Mammals
by J. Knox Jones
Records of Harvest Mice, Reithrodontomys, from Central America, with Description of a New Subspecies from Nicaragua
by Sydney Anderson, J. Knox Jones
Geographic Distribution of the Pocket Mouse, Perognathus fasciatus
by J. Knox Jones
North American Yellow Bats, 'Dasypterus,' and a List of the Named Kinds of the Genus Lasiurus Gray
by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall, J. Knox Jones
Some Reptiles and Amphibians from Korea
by Robert G. (Robert Gravem) Webb, George William Byers, J. Knox Jones
An Annotated Checklist of Nebraskan Bats
by Olin L. Webb, J. Knox Jones
Noteworthy Mammals from Sinaloa, Mexico
by J. Knox Jones, Ticul Alvarez, M. Raymond Lee
Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota
by Kenneth W. Andersen, J. Knox Jones
Geographic Variation in the Harvest Mouse, Reithrodontomys megalotis, On the Central Great Plains And in Adjacent Regions
by J. Knox Jones, B. Mursaloglu
Pleistocene Bats from San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
by J. Knox Jones
Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country
by J. Knox Jones, James Dale Smith, Ronald W. Turner
A New Subspecies of the Fruit-eating Bat, Sturnira ludovici, From Western Mexico
by J. Knox Jones, Gary L. Phillips
About the author
Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on March 16, 1929, he studied zoology at the University of Nebraska and later earned his master's and doctorate at the University of Kansas. He died in Lubbock, Texas, on November 15, 1992, after a two-year battle with cancer.
Best known as a mammalogist, he wrote widely on mammals and natural history and became an important figure in the field through research, editing, and collaboration. Sources on his life also describe him as a teacher and administrator whose work reached far beyond his own publications.
Much of his later career was tied to Texas Tech University, where he served both science and the institution itself. He is remembered not only for scholarship, but also for helping build the kind of research culture that supports future generations of biologists.