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Henry Walter Bates Collection

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Beetles

Beetles
Double page spread of pencil and watercolour illustrations and sketches of beetles by Henry Walter Bates

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892)

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

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: H. W. Bates illustrated notebooks

H. W. Bates illustrated notebooks
Plate 7 from a notebook of Henry W. Bates (1825-92) relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Longhorn beetle

Longhorn beetle

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Butterflies from the Amazon by H. W. Bates

Butterflies from the Amazon by H. W. Bates
A page (p 144) from a notebook of Henry W. Bates relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Beetle illustrations

Beetle illustrations
Double page spread of pencil and watercolour illustrations of beetles by Henry Walter Bates

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Coloured sketches of insects

Coloured sketches of insects on Page 35 from Bates notebook 1. Bates was a renowned Victorian entomologist

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Illustrated notebook of H. W. Bates

Illustrated notebook of H. W. Bates
A doube page spread from a notebook of Henry W. Bates relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) see 51935

Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) see 51935
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

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Examples of mimicry among butterflies

Examples of mimicry among butterflies
Plate from On the lepidoptera of the Amazon Valley. Transactions of the Linnean Society, by H.W. Bates, 1862

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: A naturalist being mobbed by Pteroglossus beauharnaesii, cur

A naturalist being mobbed by Pteroglossus beauharnaesii, cur
Illustration from Henry Walter Bates The Naturalist on the Amazons (1884)

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: H. W. Bates illustrated notebook

H. W. Bates illustrated notebook
Plate 7 from a notebook of Henry W. Bates (1825-92) relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, 1851-1854

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Portrait of Bates, Henry Walter (1825-1892)

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

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Butterflies painted by H. W. Bates

Butterflies painted by H. W. Bates
A butterfly covered page from a notebook of Henry W. Bates relating to the insect fauna of the Amazon Valley or DRW, (1851-1854)

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Bates, H. W. Invoice

Bates, H. W. Invoice
An invoice for an original manuscript of Insect fauna of the Amazon Valley by Henry W. Bates (1825 to 1892), from Dulau & Co. Ltd. 1917

Background imageHenry Walter Bates Collection: Methona themisto, bates butterfly

Methona themisto, bates butterfly
Photograph of a mounted Bates butterfly specimen of (Patia orise), formerly called (Leptalis orise). Specimen collected at Tapajos, Amazon


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