The Butterfly Hunter. The Life of Henry Walter Bates. NEW. Scarce first edition

Scarce first edition

harvesting and drying

A centennial history of the port town commissioned by the Lyttelton Borough Council and utilising council records

cultivation

Many old growth trees are still threatened by logging that proceeds at a relentless pace

The Butterfly Hunter. The Life of Henry Walter Bates. NEW. Scarce first editionAnthony Crawforth. A biography of Henry Bates, a contemporary of Wallace and Darwin, who spent the years 1848 59 traveling, observing and collecting insects in the Brazilian Amazon. During this time he amassed an enormous collection of entomological specimens and formulated important scientific theory. After his return to Britain he began sorting and publishing his collection, announcing his theory of insect mimicry in 1862. His book, The Naturalist