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(specimens) at very great expense. He has never travelled ; this is a 

 great deficiency, for the relation of species to closely allied species and 

 varieties cannot, I think, be thoroughly understood without personal 

 observation in different countries." 



In the memoir, by Mr. Edward Clodd, prefixed to the reprint of the 

 unabridged edition of ' The Naturalist on the Eiver Amazon,' published by 

 Mr. Murray, in 1892, it is stated that : — 



"Bates was born at Leicester in 1825 and spent his youth in the 

 district. Apprenticed to a hosiery business, he left it soon after his 

 master died and eventually entered Allsopps' Brewery as a clerk." 



Mr. Clodd adds :— 



" As often as he could he escaped from the desk to the open air, and 

 some results of his entomologising are found in a paper on ' Coleoptera 

 in the neighbourhood of Burton-on-Trent,' published in the ' Zoologist ' 

 (VI, 1848, 1997). Mr. Edwin Brown, who obtained him the situation 

 at Allsopps', is referred to as the captor of several species scheduled in 

 the paper." 



Edwin Brown appears to have exercised considerable influence upon the 

 fortunes of both Bates and A. B. Wallace. Bates became acquainted with 

 Wallace at Leicester, where the latter was English master in the Collegiate 

 School. Mr. Clodd tells us that : — 



" The two friends often discussed schemes for going abroad to explore 

 some unharvested region and at last these took definite shape, mainly 

 through the interest excited by a little book, published by John Murray 

 in 1847, entitled ' A Voyage up the Eiver Amazon, including a Eesidence 

 at Para,' by Mr. W. H. Edwards, an American tourist." 



The writer learns from Dr. Horace Brown that this book had greatly 

 interested his stepfather, Edwin Brown, who lent it to Bates to read. The 

 recovery of such a fragment of history will not be without interest, as giving 

 a clue to the mental process whereby the two travellers were eventually led 

 to the study of problems of world-wide significance. 



Adrian Brown was therefore nurtured in a scientific atmosphere. He 

 attended the local grammar school, but his effective training was at the 

 hands of his father and, in chemistry particularly, of his elder brother, 

 Horace. He received his special technical training mainly at the Eoyal 

 College of Science, the combination of the Eoyal College of Chemistry, 

 Oxford Street, with the Eoyal School of Mines, Jermyn Street, then just 

 effected at South Kensington. On leaving, he became private assistant to 

 Dr. Eussell, Lecturer on Chemistry in St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical 

 School. 



In 1873 he quitted London for Burton, to act as chemist to Messrs. Salt 

 and Co., Brewers. 



