The Butterfly Hunter
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (886 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B009WZE2L2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 411 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) led an extraordinary life, around the time of Darwin. Crawforth (PhD candidate, biography, Buckingham U) offers this fascinating history discussing the evolution of an evolutionary man, his origins and younger days in Leicester, his life-changing journey to South America, his travels throughout the landscape of South America in search of his butterflies, the theories he developed and promoted, and, by extension, his work and his role in the perspective of Darwin. . He was dedicated to locating and identifying butterflies, particularly in South America
And it was Darwin who persuaded Bates to write his travel memoir The Naturalist on the River s and indeed proof read the manuscript. Batesian Mimicry, as it is still known, developed from the study of butterflies in the amazon rainforest (with Wallace) and provided important supporting evidence for Darwin. This woeful void is remedied by Anthony Crawforth.Bates was a crucial figure and played an important part in helping both Darwin and Wallace complete their thinking. Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace and Henry Walter Bates and yet the only full biography of Bates was written in 1969. He later went on to become the administrator for the Royal Geographical Society and transformed the society to one which combined exploration with academic research and was responsible for placing geography on the school curriculum.. On his travels Bates collected over 14,000 specimens of which over 8,000 were at the time new to science. There are the three great names in 19th Century biology
Biology history A great summary volume of this sometimes overshadowed biologist. Excellent illustrations and explanations of his famous butterflies. A good gift for every field biologist.. A fine story of an unjustly overlooked scientist. Crawforth details the story of the triumph of a persistent insightful man,who overcame hardships to give an early clear view of Amazonianbiodiversity and then went on to overcome many if not all the classbarriers to scientific recognition in Great Britain.
Educated at King Henry VIII School, he joined the Army for his National Service in 1952 and left as a Colonel in 1979. Leaving there in 1996, he became a lecturer on the University of Buckingham in their Arts and Heritage Management undergraduate and postgraduate programs. He then went to City University wher