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HENRY WALTER BATES (1825-1892)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 510 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:WALTER See also:BATES (1825-1892)  , See also:English naturalist and explorer, was See also:born at See also:Leicester on the 8th of See also:February 1825 . His See also:father, a manufacturing hosier, intended him for business, and for a See also:time the son yielded to his wishes, escaping as often as he could into the neighbouring See also:country to gratify his love of See also:botany and See also:entomology . In 1844 he met a congenial spirit in See also:Alfred Russel See also:Wallace, and the result was discussion and See also:execution of' a See also:plan to explore some then little-known region of the globe . The See also:banks of the See also:Amazons was the See also:district chosen, and in See also:April 1848 the two See also:friends sailed in a trader for Path . They had little or no See also:money, but hoped to meet their expenses by the See also:sale of duplicate specimens . After two years See also:Bates and Wallace agreed to collect independently, Wallace taking the Rio See also:Negro and the upper See also:waters of the See also:Orinoco, while Bates continued his route up the See also:great See also:river for 1400 M . He remained in the country eleven years, during which time he collected no fewer than 8000 See also:species the See also:king's right to See also:levy impositions was limited by the See also:statute of 1370—1371, advanced a principle still more dangerous to constitutional See also:liberty . The statute of the 45 See also:Edward III. cap . 4," he said, " which hath been so much urged, that no new See also:imposition shall be imposed upon See also:wool-fells, wool or See also:leather, but only the See also:custom and See also:subsidy granted to the king—this extends only to the king himself and shall not bind his successors, for it is a See also:principal See also:part of the See also:crown of See also:England, which the king cannot diminish." See See also:State .. Trials (ed . 1779), xi. pp . 30-32; excerpts in G .

W . Prothero,Statutes and Constitutional Documents (See also:

Clarendon See also:Press, 1844); G . B . See also:Adams and H . See also:Morse See also:Stephens, Select Documents of Eng . Const . Hist . (New See also:York, 1901) ; cf . T . P . Taswell-Langmead, Eng . Const .

Hist . (See also:

London, 1905), p . 393 . (W . A .

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