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Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (February 21, 1858 - June 16, 1929) was a British zoologist. February 21 is the 52nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Zoology (Greek zoon = animal and logos = word) is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals. ...


Thomas worked at the Natural History Museum on mammals, describing about 2,000 new species and sub-species for the first time. He was appointed to the Museum Secretary's office in 1876, transferring to the Zoological Department in 1878. 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. In 1896 when William Henry Flower took control of the Department he hired Richard Lydekker to rearrange the exhibitions, allowing Thomas to concentrate these new specimens. The Natural History Museum in South Kensington, London, has an ornate terracotta facade typical of high Victorian architecture. ... Orders Subclass Monotremata Monotremata Subclass Marsupialia Didelphimorphia Paucituberculata Microbiotheria Dasyuromorphia Peramelemorphia Notoryctemorphia Diprotodontia Subclass Placentalia Xenarthra Dermoptera Desmostylia Scandentia Primates Rodentia Lagomorpha Insectivora Chiroptera Pholidota Carnivora Perissodactyla Artiodactyla Cetacea Afrosoricida Macroscelidea Tubulidentata Hyracoidea Proboscidea Sirenia The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the presence of mammary glands... In biology, a species is, loosely speaking, a group of related organisms that share a more or less distinctive form and are capable of interbreeding. ... 1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... 1896 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Sir William Henry Flower (November 30, 1831 - July 1, 1899) was an English zoologist. ... Richard Lydekker (1849 - April 16, 1915) was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history. ...


Reference

  • The Natural History Museum at South Kensington, William T. Stearn ISBN 0434736007

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Thomas more information (410 words)
Oldfield Thomas, as he was always known, was born in Millbrook, Bedfordshire and educated at Haileybury College in Hertford.
Oldfield Thomas spent some of his childhood in South Africa when his father was appointed to the Archdeaconate of Cape Town.
In 1891, Oldfield Thomas married an heiress, the daughter of Sir Andrew Clark, Bart.; an eminent physician.
Thomas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (204 words)
Thomas was not a Biblical given name, but originated from the Aramaic designation תום or Tôm.
The meaning of the name is "twin", and in the New Testament the designation was applied to Judas Thomas, "Jude the Twin" who was venerated as Saint Thomas the Apostle.
The name "Thomas" was not very popular until the 12th century, after the martyrdom of Thomas à Becket.
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