Thomas Allis

Thomas Allis (9 January 1788 – 24 September 1875) was a British osteologist and museum curator.

Career Allis was educated in Burford and married Mary Naish of Flax Bourton in 1812, before going to York in 1823.

Allis also served as vice-president of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society (YPS). In 1838, the YPS purchased a collection of comparative anatomy from Allis for £350.

Personal life

Allis was a quaker. He had a son, Thomas Henry Allis, who was described as "assiduous collector of Lepidoptera", The son died in August 1870, five years before Thomas Allis senior.

Select publications Allis, T. 1832. 'On Certain peculiarities of the bony fabric of the Ostrich, Emu, and Swift, Annual Report of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society Allis, T. 1837. 'On the Sclerotic Bones forming the Orbit of the Eye in different Bird and Reptiles', Report of the British Association Allis, T. 1865. 'Further Note on a Skeleton of Dinornis robustus, Owen, in the York Museum', Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 8 (11–12), 140–141. Allis, T. 1873. 'On the Skeleton of the Apteryx', Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 11 (56), 523.