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    The Naturalist on the River Amazons, subtitled A Record of the Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature...
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    Henry Walter Bates (category English naturalists)
    science. Bates wrote up his findings in his best-known work, The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Bates was born in Leicester to a literate middle-class family...
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    The Amazon River (UK: /ˈæməzən/, US: /ˈæməzɒn/; Spanish: Río Amazonas, Portuguese: Rio Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume...
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    Paullinia pinnata (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    as described by the English naturalist Henry Walter Bates in his book The Naturalist on the River Amazons. The plant contains the ceramide paullinomide...
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    the men, as was their custom. Orellana derived the name Amazonas from the Amazons of Greek mythology, described by Herodotus and Diodorus. Based on archaeological...
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    pools, as described by the English naturalist Henry Walter Bates in his book The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Plants of the World Online: Paullinia...
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    Acrocomia aculeata (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    forests. The tree was noted by the English naturalist Henry Walter Bates in his 1863 book The Naturalist on the River Amazons, where he wrote that [The hyacinth...
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    Hyacinth macaw (category Commons link is on Wikidata)
    the English naturalist Henry Walter Bates in his 1863 book The Naturalist on the River Amazons, where he wrote that It flies in pairs, and feeds on the...
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    Fauna of the Amazon Valley' in the society's Transactions. He elaborated on his experiences further in The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Bates put...
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    Tefé (category Populated places on the Amazon)
    journal requires |journal= (help) Bates, Henry Walter (1875). The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian...
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    books such as Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago and Henry Walter Bates's The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Robinson initially worked mainly...
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    The Amazon river dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), also known as the boto, bufeo or pink river dolphin, is a species of toothed whale endemic to South America...
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    Mimicry (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Bates, an English naturalist whose work on butterflies in the Amazon rainforest (described in The Naturalist on the River Amazons) was pioneering in...
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    body; sometimes it snaps off during mating. The account was dismissed as fanciful until the French naturalist Georges Cuvier described it in his 1817 Le...
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    significant part of his life in Brazil, as described in his book The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Bates conjectured that these abundant and distasteful butterflies...
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    Animal coloration (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Bates's 1863 book The Naturalist on the River Amazons describes his extensive studies of the insects in the Amazon basin, and especially the butterflies. He...
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    Philosophy, or Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals") is an 1809 book by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in which he outlines...
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    Charles Darwin (category English naturalists)
    in Nature showed that anatomically, humans are apes, then The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates provided empirical evidence of natural...
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    residency at Pará. Bates stayed in the Amazons for 11 years, going on to write The Naturalist on the River Amazons (1863); however, Wallace, ill with fever...
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  • Jupati River is a river of Amapá state in Brazil. It is a tributary of the Amazon River. Bates, Henry Walter (1962). The Naturalist on the River Amazons. University...
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  • Richard Lydekker (category 19th-century English naturalists)
    (/lɪˈdɛkər/; 25 July 1849 – 16 April 1915) was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history. Richard Lydekker was born at Tavistock...
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    botany. He continually revised the manuscript, and it remained in an unfinished state on his death. The condensed style of the text, with its many lists of...
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    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (category 17th-century Dutch naturalists)
    Leeuwenhoek visited the Tsar Peter the Great on his boat, moored in the Schie or the Arsenaal. On this occasion he presented the Tsar with an "eel-viewer"...
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    Bernstein discovers the Waigeo home of Wilson's bird-of-paradise. Alfred Russel Wallace publishes The Naturalist on the River Amazons Gustav Radde Reisen...
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  • observed, in the vineyards of the southern Rhône region of France. Henry Walter Bates publishes The Naturalist on the River Amazons. February 17 – First meeting...
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  • C. formed. Henry Walter Bates's work The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Charles Kingsley's children's novel The Water Babies (complete in book form)...
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  • US, Cr/S) Henry Walter Bates (1825–1892, England, Nh/T); The Naturalist on the River Amazons Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929, US, Lc/T) Helen Bayes (born...
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    Bernard Germain de Lacépède (category French naturalists)
    1825) was a French naturalist and an active freemason. He is known for his contribution to the Comte de Buffon's great work, the Histoire Naturelle....
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  • mountaineering in the Andes and visits to La Paz, Lake Titicaca, and Potosi. Bates, Henry Walter, 1825–1892. The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of...
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    John Murray (publishing house) (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    Bates's The Naturalist on the River Amazons published 1865 – Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes...
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