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BeetlesDouble page spread of pencil and watercolour illustrations and sketches of beetles by Henry Walter Bates
England cricket team of 1885Cricketers of the England eleven of 1885, with W G Grace at the centre, surrounded by Barnes, Lyttelton, Shrewsbury, Gunn, Bates, Steel, Read, Peate, Barlow and Ulyett. 1885
Gunpowder Plot ConspiratorsThe Gunpowder Plot - The Conspirators, including Guido (Guy) Fawkes and Robert Catesby. Date: 1605
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892)Henry Walter Bates FRS FLS FGS was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. Born in Leicester 8 February 1825, died London, 16 February 1892
H. W. Bates illustrated notebooksPlate 7 from a notebook of Henry W. Bates (1825-92) relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854
Longhorn beetle
Butterflies from the Amazon by H. W. BatesA page (p 144) from a notebook of Henry W. Bates relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854
Beetle illustrationsDouble page spread of pencil and watercolour illustrations of beetles by Henry Walter Bates
Coloured sketches of insects on Page 35 from Bates notebook 1. Bates was a renowned Victorian entomologist
Illustrated notebook of H. W. BatesA doube page spread from a notebook of Henry W. Bates relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854
Advert for Follows & Bates winding machines 1900sVarious machines from the late 19th Century early 20th century, advertised in The Ironmonger Diary and Text Book, for Follows & Bates in Manchester. Circa 1900
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) see 51935Bates collections and notebooks are held at the Natural History Museum, London. Bates is best known for his publication Naturalis on the River Amazon (1863) and his work on mimicry
Examples of mimicry among butterfliesPlate from On the lepidoptera of the Amazon Valley. Transactions of the Linnean Society, by H.W. Bates, 1862
A naturalist being mobbed by Pteroglossus beauharnaesii, curIllustration from Henry Walter Bates The Naturalist on the Amazons (1884)
H. W. Bates illustrated notebookPlate 7 from a notebook of Henry W. Bates (1825-92) relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854
Lord Aberconway, John Brown ands J Piggott, Construction of RMS Queen Elizabeth
Construction of RMS Queen Elizabeth launched in 1938 Sir Percy Bates, Lord Aberconway ands J Piggott
RMS Mauretania, ocean liner being launched 1938The launch of the RMS Mauretania unveiled the name by Lady Bates, wife of the Chairman of the Cunard White Star taking place at Cammell Laird's yard, Birkenhead
The Mariners Return by Mary Fison Bates (1912-1941). 20th century
FALL / TIBETAN MASTIFF / 35TONYA Owned by P. S. Bates. Date: 1935
Charlotte Rampling in Jean VaronActress Charlotte Rampling (born 1946) pictured in her Avengers dress by Jean Varon (designed by British designer John Bates), black and white crepe
Rugger Personalities - Rugby 1920Rugger personalities by H. Crowther Smith. Includes G. Rowland Hill, Lieut-Colones S. S. D. Craven, B. S. Cumberlege, C. J. B. Marriott, C. N. Lowe, F. C
Candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in Chicago: Bates, Pennington, Chase, Fremont, Lincoln, Seward, Banks, McLean, Cameron, Bell and Clay. Wood engraving (1860)
Woman police officer with children in CroydonWoman police officer (Constable Bates, 70Z) looking after two young children in Croydon. Date: circa 1950s
William Bates, DivineWILLIAM BATES Presbyterian churchman, professor of theology. Date: 1625 - 1699
Pigot / WhitehallLADY EMILY (NEE BENYON) PIGOT British aristocracy - daughter of Samuel Bates Benyon; married (as 2nd wife) Sir Robert Pigot, 4th Bt in 1850 Date: -
The Ultimate Human Being"..he is the ultimate in human progress...the logical end of mans ambitious climb up from the monkey" (Harry Bates, Alas, all thinking ! ) Date: 1935
Rectory and Offices at Burnham NorfolkEnglish domestic architecture: elevations of a Rectory and Offices at Burnham Norfolk for the Revd. Mr. Bates. From George Alfred Deans Series of Selected Designs for Country Residences
Part of the frieze of The Institute of Chartered Accountants, Moorgate Place, London - architect John Belcher, assisted by two decorative sculptors Mr Hamo. Thorneycroft R.A
What People Are Wearing - Philomena KingPhilomena King wearing a black and white coney coat from the John Bates Avenger collection. Date: 1966
Winslow house, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USAThe house of General John Winslow in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, built in 1730. Date: circa 1905
H. E. BatesHerbert Ernest Bates (1905 74), British writer and author, best known for The Darling Buds of May, Love for Lydia and My Uncle Silas
Mme Van Der WeyerMADAME VAN DER WEYER (nee Bates) wife of Sylvain Van de Weyer, Belgian minister in London Date: CIRCA 1840
John Bates ThurstonSir JOHN BATES THURSTON Colonial governor Date: 1836 - 1897
Grannie Makes LaceMiss Mary Bates, aged 85, of Clifton Road, Cliftonville, Margate, England, can still see well enough to make lace pillow cases without the aid of spectacles. Date: early 1930s
Portrait of Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892)Bates collections and notebooks are held at The Natural History Museum, London. Bates is best known for his publication Naturalis on the River Amazon, 1863 and his work on mimicry
Butterflies painted by H. W. BatesA butterfly covered page from a notebook of Henry W. Bates relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, (1851-1854)
Bates, H. W. InvoiceAn invoice for an original manuscript of Insect fauna of the Amazon Valley by Henry W. Bates (1825 to 1892), from Dulau & Co. Ltd. 1917
Letter written by Wallace, Alfred Russel (1823-1913)Letter from the nineteenth century British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace to Frederick Bates, sent from Singapore in 1856
Methona themisto, bates butterflyPhotograph of a mounted Bates butterfly specimen of (Patia orise), formerly called (Leptalis orise). Specimen collected at Tapajos, Amazon