The Butterfly Hunter
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) led an extraordinary life, around the time of Darwin. He was dedicated to locating and identifying butterflies, particularly in South America. Crawforth (PhD candidate, biography, Buckingham U) offers this fascinating history discussing the evolution of an evolutionary man, his origins and younger days in Leicester, his life-changing journey to South America, his travels throughout the landscape of South America in search of his butterflies, the theories he developed and promoted, and, by extension, his  work and his role in the perspective of Darwin.