Darwin Correspondence Project

  Brewer and naturalist . Younger brother of Henry Walter Bates. Managing director of a brewing company in Leicester. A keen entomologist, particularly interested in the Heteromera, publishing many papers and forming an extensive collection. Also formed collections of Cicindelidae and British Coleoptera. Cultivated orchids for some years.

Sources: Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 39 (1903): 286–7 Gilbert, Pamela 1977

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See also Correspondence, volume(s): 10,11