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(Michael Rogers) Oldfield Thomas (February 21, 1858 – June 16, 1929) was a British zoologist. Events 362 - Athanasius returns to Alexandria. 1245 - Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland Year 1858 ( MDCCCLVIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Events 1487 - Battle of Stoke Field, the last dying breath of the Wars of the Roses. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Zoology (from Greek ζῷον, zoon, "animal" + λόγος, " Logos " "knowledge" is the branch of

Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and sub-species for the first time. The Natural History Museum is one of three large Museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum Mammals ( class Mammalia) are a class of Vertebrate Animals characterized by the presence of Sweat glands, including sweat glands In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. He was appointed to the Museum Secretary's office in 1876, transferring to the Zoological Department in 1878. Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1878 ( MDCCCLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In 1891 Thomas married an heiress to a small fortune, which gave him the finances to hire mammal collectors and present their specimens to the museum. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common In 1896 when William Henry Flower took control of the Department he hired Richard Lydekker to rearrange the exhibitions,[1] allowing Thomas to concentrate on these new specimens. Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Sir William Henry Flower KCB FRCS FRS (November 30 1831 – July 1 1899 was an English Comparative anatomist and Surgeon. Richard Lydekker ( July 25, 1849 - April 16, 1915) was an English naturalist, Geologist and writer of numerous [2], [3] He committed suicide in 1929, aged 71, shortly after the death of his wife.

References

  1. ^ The Natural History Museum at South Kensington, William T. Stearn ISBN 0-434-73600-7
  2. ^ Oldfield Thomas, Catalogue of the Marsupialia and Monotremata in the Collection of the British Museum (Natural History) Dept of Zoology (1888), Taylor and Francis, London Catalogue of the Marsupialia... full text retrieved 3/21/2007
  3. ^ Oldfield Thomas F. Marsupials are an Infraclass of Mammals characterized by a distinctive pouch (called the marsupium) in which females carry their young through Monotremes (from the Greek monos 'single' + trema 'hole' referring to the Cloaca) are Mammals that lay eggs ( Prototheria) instead R. S. , The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum Vol. II, Separate Historical accounts of the Historical Collections included in the Department of Zoology, I. Mammals,(1906) William Clowes and Sons Ltd. London. retrieved 3/21/2007The History of the Collections..." full text
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