Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas

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Michael Rogers Oldfield Thomas (February 21st 1858 - June 16th 1929) was an English zoologist.

Thomas worked with the British Museum on the Mammifère S, describing for the first time approximately 2.000 new species and subspecies. He was named with the Museum Secretary' S office in 1876, then transferred to the zoological Service in 1878. In 1891, Thomas married the heiress of a small fortune, which gave him the means of remunerating collectors of mammals and of presenting their specimens to the natural history museum. In 1896 when Sir William Henry Flower (1831-1899) took the control of the service, he engaged Richard Lydekker to rearrange the exposures, thus making it possible Thomas to concentrate on these new specimens.

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