The Butterfly Hunter. The Life of Henry Walter Bates. NEW. the North West Coast of

the North West Coast of America

Bloomsbury Publishing

This is the smaller gift edition

who spent the years 1848-59 traveling

Lawrie Metcalf

The Butterfly Hunter. The Life of Henry Walter Bates. NEW. the North West Coast ofAnthony Crawforth. A biography of Henry Bates, a contemporary of Wallace and Darwin, who spent the years 1848 59 traveling, observing and collecting insects in the Brazilian Amazon. During this time he amassed an enormous collection of entomological specimens and formulated important scientific theory. After his return to Britain he began sorting and publishing his collection, announcing his theory of insect mimicry in 1862. His book, The Naturalist