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Mr. Darwin ; and is not only one of the most fascinating works 

 of travel ever written, but a monument of English pluck and 

 perseverance. 



During his travels, Bates sent home a number of articles 

 and extracts from his journal, which were published in the 

 ' Zoologist ' between 1849 and 1858. In 1859 he returned to 

 England, after eleven years' absence, and energetically commenced 

 the working-out of his collections, which comprised over 14,700 

 species, of which no less than 8000 were new to science. Amongst 

 the papers which he then wrote one of the most important is 

 certainly his famous memoir entitled " Contributions to an Insect 

 Fauna of the Amazons Valley," which was published in the 

 ' Transactions ' of this Society in 1862, wherein the theory of 

 mimicry of protective resemblances was first formulated. In 

 1864 he contributed to the ' Journal of Entomology ' an im- 

 portant paper on the Classification of the Ehopalocera, which 

 has been described as " the most philosophical and natural system 

 yet attained in the arrangement of any Oi'der of the Insecta." 

 He subsequently published a magnificent work on Coleoptera, 

 which occupies three quarto volumes in Messrs. Godman and 

 Salvin's ' Biologia Centrali-Americana.' He wrote a volume on 

 " Central America, West Indies, and South America," which 

 forms part of Stanford's ' Compendium of Greography and Travel; ' 

 and he edited for Messrs. Cassell a valuable series of volumes 

 entitled ' Illustrated Travels.' In addition to all this, he was the 

 author of a great number of papers, chiefly on entomology, which 

 have appeared in the publications of this and other scientific 

 societies and in various serial journals. 



In 1864 Bates became Assistant Secretary of the Eoyal Geo- 

 graphical Society, and continued to hold the post until his death ; 

 the universal esteem and the appreciation in which he was held is 

 eloquently recorded in the ' Proceedings ' of that Society. 



He was elected a Fellow of this Society in 1871. He was also 

 a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Entomological Society 

 (of which he twice filled the office of President). One of his 

 most valued honours was the Order bestowed upon him by the 

 late Emperor of Brazil in recognition of his services as an 

 explorer. 



By the death of Henry Walter Bates on February 16, 1892, 

 science loses not only a great traveller, but a philosophic natu- 

 ralist of the first rank, and' one for whose memory it has been 

 claimed that he was probably the greatest, and certainly the most 

 loved and respected, entomologist of Ms time. 



SiE William Bowman was born at Nantwich on July 20th, 

 1816. He was educated at Hazelwood School, Birmingham, and 

 afterwards as a pupil at the Birmingham General Hospital. In 

 October 1837 he entered King's College Hospital, and two years 

 later was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy. In 1840 he was 

 elected Assistant Surgeon to that Hospital, and in 1846 to a 



