 In 1996 the Wood Jones Professor of Biological Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy, named for the second Elder Professor of Anatomy, was established from an endowment by Professor Ray Last (1903–1993), who studied under Wood Jones in the 1920s before embarking on a successful career as a surgeon and teacher in Australia and the United Kingdom.The foundation Wood Jones Chair (1996-) is Professor Maciej Henneberg Ph.D. D.Sc.He had a severe illness in 1887 and shortly afterwards retired.