THE BUTTERFLY HUNTER: THE LIFE OF HENRY WALTER BATES

Book ID/图书代码： 07869919C00010

English Summary/英文概要： There are the three great names in 19th Century biology. Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace and Henry Walter Bates and yet the only full biography of Bates was written in 1969. This woeful void is remedied by Anthony Crawforth.

Bates was a crucial figure and played an important part in helping both Darwin and Wallace complete their thinking. Batesian Mimicry, as it is still known, developed from the study of butterflies in the amazon rainforest (with Wallace) and provided important supporting evidence for Darwin. And it was Darwin who persuaded Bates to write his travel memoir The Naturalist on the River Amazons and indeed proof read the manuscript. On his travels Bates collected over 14,000 specimens of which over 8,000 were at the time new to science. He later went on to become the administrator for the Royal Geographical Society and transformed the society to one which combined exploration with academic research and was responsible for placing geography on the school curriculum.

This is a long overdue book that reassesses Bates’s life and work and finally places both the man and his work in their rightful place along side the other greats.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在19世纪的生物学中有三个伟大的名字。查尔斯•达尔文，阿尔弗雷德•华莱士和亨利•沃尔特•贝茨，然而唯一一本关于贝茨的完整传记是在1969年写的。安东尼•克劳弗斯弥补了这一可悲的空白。

贝茨是一个至关重要的人物，在帮助达尔文和华莱士完成他们的思想过程中发挥了重要作用。至今仍为人所知的贝氏拟态是从对亚马逊雨林蝴蝶的研究中发展而来的(与华莱士)，并为达尔文提供了重要的支持证据。正是达尔文说服贝茨写了他的旅行回忆录《亚马逊河上的博物学家》，证明他读过手稿。贝茨在旅途中收集了超过14000个标本，其中8000多个是当时科学界的新发现。后来，他成为英国皇家地理学会的管理者，并将学会转变为一个探索与学术研究相结合的学会，负责将地理知识纳入学校课程。

这是一本姗姗来迟的书，重新评估贝茨的生活和工作，并最终把他和他的伟大的著作放在他们应有的位置。（WYL）

Awards/获奖情况：“我不仅向鳞翅目昆虫学家，而且向所有对自然史和科学史感兴趣的人推荐《蝴蝶猎人》……他的作品个性鲜明，生动有趣。我特别喜欢读克劳弗斯的介绍性材料，它描述了华莱士、贝茨和其他对达尔文在《物种起源》一书中的综合理论做出贡献的人的融合的生活故事。贝茨在英国读大学时遇到了阿尔弗雷德•拉塞尔•华莱士。他们对自然史有共同的兴趣，对物种起源的奥秘很感兴趣。这两个人策划了一个去巴西旅行的理想主义计划，计划的资金来源是收集标本，然后运回英国，卖给博物馆和私人收藏家。安东尼•克劳弗斯的这本新书帮助贝茨回归，这将是一个受欢迎的资源，让我们更好地理解亨利•贝茨研究蝴蝶模仿的重要性以及他对进化论的贡献。作者认为，尽管贝茨与华莱士和达尔文有着友谊和专业上的联系，但相对来说，他对进化论的贡献并不为人所知，只有一小群进化生物学家才充分认识到他对进化论的贡献。这本书是一位科学家的传记，他发现并阐明鳞翅目昆虫的拟态具有重要的历史意义。它的优势在于其广泛的传记材料，它既不是亚马逊地区的自然史，也不是鳞翅目昆虫拟态的科普研究。”——迈克尔•柯林斯，卡内基自然历史博物馆研究员

I recommend Butterfly Hunter, not just to Lepidopterists, but to anyone interested in natural history and the history of science....his writing is personal, vivid and entertaining. I particularly enjoyed reading Crawforth s introductory material describing converging life stories of Wallace, Bates, and others who contributed to Darwin s synthesis in On the Origin of Species. Bates met Alfred Russel Wallace when both were college students in England. They shared an interest in natural history and were intrigued by the mystery of the origin of species. The two men hatched an idealistic scheme to travel to Brazil, to be funded by collecting specimens to be shipped back to England and sold to museums and private collectors. This new book by Anthony Crawforth helps put the Bates back into Batesian mimicry and will be a welcome resource to better understand the importance of Henry W. Bates work on mimicry in butterflies and his contributions to evolutionary theory. The author believes that Bates, in spite of his friendship and professional association with Wallace and Darwin, is relatively unknown and his contributions to evolutionary theory not fully appreciated outside a small circle of evolutionary biologists. This book is biography of a scientist whose discovery and elucidation of mimicry in Lepidoptera was historically important. Its strength is in its extensive biographical material and it isn t intended to be either a natural history of the Amazon region nor a popular science treatment of mimicry in Lepidoptera. --MICHAEL M. COLLINS, Research Associate, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

About the Author/作者介绍： 安东尼•克劳弗斯1934年出生于考文垂。他在亨利八世国王学校接受教育，1952年参军服兵役，1979年退役，成为上校。然后他进入城市大学，在那里他获得了博物馆管理硕士学位，同时在沃德斯登庄园担任罗斯柴尔德家族的行政管理人。1996年离开那里后，他成为白金汉大学艺术与遗产管理本科和研究生课程的讲师。从小就迷上了亨利•沃尔特•贝茨，他在白金汉大学攻读传记博士学位，贝茨是他的研究对象。他已婚，有三个孩子和六个孙子孙女，现在住在白金汉郡。他是林奈学会的会员。

ANTHONY CRAWFORTH was born in Coventry in 1934. Educated at King Henry VIII School, he joined the Army for his National Service in 1952 and left as a Colonel in 1979. He then went to City University where he gained his MA in Museum Management whilst taking up an appointment as administrator for the Rothschild family at Waddesdon Manor. Leaving there in 1996, he became a lecturer on the University of Buckingham in their Arts and Heritage Management undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Fascinated by Henry Walter Bates since his childhood he studied for his PhD in Biography at Buckingham with Bates as his subject. Married with three children and six grandchildren he now lives in Buckinghamshire. He is a Fellow of the Linnaean Society.

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