Henry Walter Bates' Amazon Expedition and Mimicry Research (1848–1859)

1. Stevens’s agency supports specimen shipments

   Jan 1, 1848Labels: Samuel Stevens, Collecting agency

   • Linda Hall
   • Stevens

2. Bates and Wallace plan Amazon collecting voyage

   Apr 1, 1848Labels: Henry Bates, Alfred Wallace

   • Wallace Letters
   • Linda Hall

3. Bates and Wallace sail from Liverpool

   Apr 20, 1848Labels: Liverpool, Bates and

   • Gutenberg
   • Wallace Fund

4. Arrival at Pará (Belém), Brazil

   May 28, 1848Labels: Par Bel, Amazon mouth

   • New Yorker
   • Bates bio

5. Bates establishes long-term bases up the Amazon

   Jan 1, 1850Labels: Bates fieldwork, Base camps

   • Bates bio
   • Wallace essay

6. Bates and Wallace split to cover more territory

   Mar 26, 1850Labels: Bates, Wallace

   • New Yorker
   • Encyclopedia com

7. Bates uses multiple shipments to protect collections

   Jan 1, 1852Labels: Bates, Specimen shipments

   • Nature
   • Bates bio

8. Wallace’s Amazon collections are lost at sea

   Jan 1, 1852Labels: Alfred Wallace, Shipwreck

   • Linda Hall
   • Wallace Fund

9. Bates returns to England after eleven years

   Jun 1, 1859Labels: Henry Bates, Amazon collection

   • New Yorker
   • Wallace essay

10. Mimicry analysis published in Linnean Society paper

    Jan 1, 1862Labels: Batesian mimicry, Linnean Society

    • Nature
    • BHL

11. The Naturalist on the River Amazons is published

    Jan 1, 1863Labels: The Naturalist, Henry Bates

    • LOC
    • Naturalist

12. Bates begins leadership role at Royal Geographical Society

    Jan 1, 1864Labels: Royal Geographical, Bates

    • Livingstone
    • Bates bio