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| birth_date = 1825
| death_date = 1892
| address = 15 Whitehall Place, SW
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| societies = Royal Geographical Society
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== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===

=== House Notes ===
A5 47 H.W. Bates, Royal Geographical Society, 15 Whitehall Place, SW to JH, 2 Jan. 1866 – regrets unable to attend meeting<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />knew Burton
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS, FGS (Leicester. Born 8 February 1825 – London, 16 February 1892) 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 Alfred Russel Wallace, starting in 1848. Wallace returned in 1852, but lost his collection on the return voyage when his ship caught fire. When Bates arrived home in 1859 after a full eleven years, he had sent back over 14,712 species (mostly of insects) of which 8,000 were new to science.[1] Bates wrote up his findings in his best-known work, The Naturalist on the River Amazons.<br /><br />An explorer and naturalist, from Leicester, who was largely self-educated. He explored the Amazon between 1848 and 1850, in the company of Alfred Russel Wallace. After Wallace left in 1850, Bates stayed on till 1859, before returning to England. He later wrote a classic description of his explorations The Naturalist on the River Amazons (London: Murray, 1863) and provided the first accurate descriptions of adaptive mimicry in nature. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1881, he was also active in the RGS as Assistant Secretary from 1864 until his death in 1892. He had an extensive correspondence with Burton, with whom he was on good terms and knew well through the RGS—see Volume 2.<br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
The Naturalist on the River Amazons.<br />
=== House Publications ===

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