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Henry Walter Bates

Born

in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, The United Kingdom

February 18, 1825

Died

February 16, 1892

Genre

Science, Nature

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After British naturalist Henry Walter Bates, a palatable or harmless species of insects especially in Batesian mimicry, a protective form, closely resembles one that predators therefore avoid.

This fellow of royal, Linnean, and geological societies and an English explorer gave the first scientific account in animals. He started his most famous expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon River with Alfred Russel Wallace in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852 but lost his collection on the return voyage, when his ship caught fire. Bates sent back more than 14,712 samples, including eight thousand new scientific specimens, and after a full eleven years arrived home in 1859. Bates wrote up his findings in The Naturalist on the River Amazons , his ...more

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	In the Heart of the Amazon Forest 3.34 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1863	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates, Henry Walter Botes 3.90 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1863 — 235 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Journals of Henry Walter Bates really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Naturalist on the River Amazons, Volume Two 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The naturalist on the River Amazons, A record of adventures, Volume 1 1863 [Hardcover] really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 060 by Henry Walter Bates (Contributor), Frédéric Bastiat (Contributor), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (Contributor) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Coração da Amazónia liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Natu River V1:Sci Tra 1790-1877(Scientific Travellers, 1789-1874) by Henry Walter Bates, David M. Knight (Editor) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Illustrated Travels, Vol. 1: A Record of Discovery, Geography and Adventure; With Engravings From Original Drawings 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Un Naturalista sul Rio delle Amazzoni (Capitolo 1) (Storia Naturale) (Italian Edition) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is something in a tropical forest akin to the ocean in its effect on the mind. Man feels so completely his insignificance there and the vastness of nature.”
― Henry Walter Bates

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“... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.”
― Henry Walter Bates, The Naturalist on the River Amazons

tags: biology, butterfly, evolution, naturalism, nature, physiology, relationship, science

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