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Thomas worked at the [[Natural History Museum]] on [[mammal]]s, 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,<ref>''The Natural History Museum at South Kensington'', William T. Stearn ISBN 0-434-73600-7</ref> allowing Thomas to concentrate on these new specimens.<ref>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 [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00283454&id=F39J5lMIKrEC&pg=PT57&lpg=PT57&dq=%22oldfield+thomas%22&num=20&as_brr=1#PPR1,M1 ''Catalogue of the Marsupialia...'' full text] retrieved 3/21/2007</ref>, <ref>Oldfield Thomas F. 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 3/21/2007[http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC55581905&id=i1seAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA26&lpg=RA1-PA26&dq=Myotis+%22oldfield+thomas%22&num=20&as_brr=1#PRA1-PA10,M1 ''The History of the Collections..." full text]</ref> He committed suicide in 1929, aged 71, shortly after the death of his wife.