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See also:HEZEKIAH LINTHICUM See also:BATEMAN (1812–1875)
, See also:American actor and manager, was See also:born in See also:Baltimore, See also:Maryland, on the 6th of See also:December 1812
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He was intended for an engineer, but in 1832 became an actor, playing with Ellen See also:Tree (afterwards Mrs See also: 1845), known as the" Bateman children," began their theatrical career at an See also:early See also:age . In 186 2 Kate played in New York as Juliet and See also:Lady See also:Macbeth; and in of See also:insects new to See also:science . His See also:long See also:residence in the tropics, with the privations which it entailed, undermined his See also:health . Nor had the See also:exile from See also:home the See also:compensation of freeing him from See also:financial cares, which hung heavy on him till he had the See also:good See also:fortune to be appointed in 1864 assistant-secretary of the Royal See also:Geographical Society, a See also:post which, to the inestimable gain of the society, and the See also:advantage of a See also:succession of explorers, to whom he was alike See also:Nestor and See also:Mentor, he retained till his death on the 16th of See also:February 1892 . See also:Bates is best known as the author of one of the most delightful books of travel in the English See also:language, The Naturalist on the See also:Amazons (1863), the See also:writing of which, as the See also:correspondence between the two has shown, was due to Charles See also:Darwin's persistent urgency . " Bates," wrote Darwin to See also:Sir Charles See also:Lyell, " is second only to See also:Humboldt in describing a tropical See also:forest." But his most memorable contribution to biological science, and more especially to that See also:branch of it which deals with the agencies of modification of organisms, was his See also:paper on the " See also:Insect See also:Fauna of the See also:Amazon Valley," read before the Linnaean Society in 1861 . He therein, as Darwin testified, clearly stated and solved the problem of " See also:mimicry," or the superficial resemblances between totally different See also:species and the likeness between an See also:animal and its surroundings, whereby it evades its foes or conceals itself from its See also:prey . Bates's other contributions to the literature of science and travel were sparse and fugitive, but he edited for several years a periodical of Illustrated Travels . A See also:man of varied tastes, he devoted the larger See also:part of his leisure to See also:entomology, notably to the See also:classification of See also:coleoptera . Of these he See also:left an extensive and unique collection, which, fortunately for science, was See also:purchased intact by Rene Oberthur of See also:Rennes . |
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