Henry Walter Bates

From Philosopedia

Bates, Henry Walter (1825—1892)

A naturalist, Bates sailed with Alfred Wallace] to South America, left him in 1850 and continued to travel in the upper Amazons.

At Charles Darwin’s suggestion, Bates wrote Naturalist on the Amazons (1863).

Bates, an agnostic, was President of the Entomological Society in 1869 and 1878 and was a Chevalier of the Brazilian Order of the Rose.

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