Born: 8 February 1825, Leicester [Died] February 16, 1892. London. British naturalist and explorer. Full name Henry Walter Bates. In 1861, he published a paper proposing that insect mimicry is the result of natural selection, and fully supported Charles Robert Darwin's theory of evolution. In 1844, he met Alfred Russel Wallace, who was a teacher in England, and introduced him to the world of entomology. Wallace suggested that Bates and Wallace travel to the Amazon basin to collect specimens for commercial purposes and to gather data useful for research on the origin of species. On May 28, 1848, Bates and Wallace arrived in Belém, Para, near the mouth of the Amazon River. Wallace returned to England in 1852, but Bates stayed there for 11 years, exploring the Amazon basin and collecting about 14,712 species (8,000 of which were unknown), mainly insects. He returned to Japan in 1859. In 1861, he published his famous paper "Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley." In 1864, he was appointed assistant secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, a position he held for the rest of his life. He wrote many books, including "The Naturalist on the River Amazons" (1863, 2 volumes). Bates |
[生]1825.2.8. レスター [没]1892.2.16. ロンドン イギリスの博物学者,探検家。フルネーム Henry Walter Bates。1861年に昆虫の擬態が自然選択の作用であることを発表し,チャールズ・ロバート・ダーウィンの進化論を全面的に支持した。1844年,イギリスで教員をしていたアルフレッド・ラッセル・ウォレスと知り合い,昆虫学の世界に導いた。そのウォレスに,商売のための標本採集と,種の起源の研究に役立つデータ収集を目的としたアマゾン川流域への旅行を提案され,1848年5月28日,ベーツとウォレスはアマゾン川河口付近のパラ州ベレンに到着した。ウォレスは 1852年にイギリスに帰国したが,ベーツは 11年間滞在してアマゾン川流域を探検し,昆虫を中心に約 1万4712種(うち 8000種が未知種)を採集した。1859年帰国。1861年に有名な論文 "Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley"を発表した。1864年,王立地理学協会事務次長に任命され,終生その職にあった。『アマゾン河の博物学者』The Naturalist on the River Amazons(1863,全2巻)ほか著書多数。 ベーツ
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