BATES, Henry Walter (1825 – 1892)
1825 – 1892
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source J. Thomson · Obituary: Henry Walter Bates, F. R. S. , Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, New Monthly Series, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Apr., 1892), pp. 245-257 · Public domain
1862 CE
#220.1
Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley: Lepidoptera: Heliconidae.
Bates spent eleven years in the Amazon and there collected 8,000 species of insects new to science. In the above paper he clearly stated and solved the problem of “mimicry”, known today as “Batesian …
1863 CE
#7442
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. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.