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Henry Walter Bates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) ... Bates, already a diehard beetle collector, became friends with Wallace while they were both living in the English countryside and then set out with him to become a professional collector in the Amazon in 1848. When Wallace returned to England and then went on to Indonesia, Bates stayed in...
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Then he beheld the beetle collection of his young friend, Henry Walter Bates. Varied, puzzling, and some gleaming like jewels, the beetles drew Wallace toward insects. When he subsequently dreamed of journeying to the Amazon, Bates encouraged him.
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Henry Bates is famous for his contributions to the taxonomy of Neotropical scarabs, among other things. ... O'Hara, J.E. 1995. Henry Walter Bates---his life and contributions to biology. Archives of Natural History 22: 195-219. ... Henry Walter Bates 1825-1892...
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IF I were heading for the Amazon and had room in my tropical kit for just one book, my choice would unquestionably be Henry Walter Bates's "The Naturalist on the River Amazons." A hundred and twenty-five years after its first appearance, it remains the basic text, one of the monuments of scientific travel writing,
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Letter to Sir Archibald Geikie from Henry Walter Bates (1874 ... the project | the collections | biographies | multimedia | research uses...
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Bates, Henry Walter 1863 ... The Naturalist on the River Amazons, a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel. ... Back to Henry Walter Bates; Back to Portraits; Back to Jim Mallet Home Page;
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Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-92, English naturalist and explorer. In 1848 he went with A. R. Wallace to Brazil, where he explored the upper Amazon, returning in 1859 with some 8,000 new zoological species. He was the first to state a plausible theory of mimicry.
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Bates, Henry Walter (England 1825-1892 ... Henry Walter Bates has a permanent place in the history of natural history by virtue of his eleven year stint as a collector in tropical Brazil, the famous travel book he wrote describing his adventure, and his pulling together of geographical data, field observation,
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