Henry Walter Bates
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Henry Walter Bates was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. He was most famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfre
Henry Walter Bates
Plate from Bates's 1862 paper "Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley: Heliconiidae"
Bates's grave in East Finchley Cemetery
The Naturalist on the River Amazons, subtitled A Record of the Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Tra
Henry Walter Bates
…mostly of insects) of which 8,000 were (according to Bates, but see Van Wyhe) new to science. Bates wrote up his findings in his best-known work, The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863). Batesian mimicry is named in his honor. Bates was born in Leicester to a literate middle-class family. However, like Wallace, Thomas Henry…
Painting by William Swainson, 1841, of the crested oropendola, "a handsome bird with chestnut and saffron-coloured plumage"
A formal portrait of Bates by Maull & Fox Ltd, c. 1880
Hyacinthine macaws in a palm tree in the Pantanal, Brazil