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RefNoEC/1901/13
Previous numbersCert XII, 133
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TitleThomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: certificate of election to the Royal Society
CitationSenior Assistant, Zoological Deoartment, British Museum. In charge of the collection of Mammals in the British Museum since 1878, during which period it has increased materially in extent and completeness. Distinguished for his acquaintance with the structure, history and distribution of Mammals. Author of the 'Catalogue of Marsupialia and Monotremata' in the British Museum, 1888. Joint author with Dr Sclater of 'The Book of Antelopes.' Author of upwards of 200 memoirs and papers in various journals on Mammals their structure and distribution, amongst which are: 'On the Dentition of 'Ornithorhynchus'' (Proc Roy Soc, 1889); 'A Milk Dentition in 'Orycteropus'' (ibid); 'On the Speciesof 'Hyracoidea'' (Proc Zool Soc, 1892); 'On Coenoles, a still existing survivor of the 'Epanorthidae'' (ibid).
ProposersP L Sclater; [William H Flower]; H Woodward; G A Boulenger; [St G Mivart]; A Gunther; C Stewart; G B Howes; A Newton; F E Beddard; W T Blanford; [J Anderson]; R Trimen; C S Tomes; E B Poulton; W Bateson; R Lydekker; D J Cunningham
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Thomas, Michael Rogers Oldfield: certificate of election to the Royal Society

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NA1355Thomas; Michael Rogers Oldfield (1858 - 1929)1858 - 1929
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