BATES HENRY WALTER: (1825-1892) English Explorer & Naturalist who gave the first scientific account ...

BATES HENRY WALTER: (1825-1892) English Explorer & Naturalist who gave the first scientific account ...
BATES HENRY WALTER: (1825-1892) English Explorer & Naturalist who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. Bates is also famous for his expedition to the rainforests of the Amazon with Alfred Russel Wallace. A.L.S., H W Bates, three pages, 8vo, Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, London, 10th January 1878, to Carruthers, on the printed stationery of the Royal Geographical Society. Bates announces 'I have not the power to purchase the Mungo Park sketches right off' and explains 'They must be submitted to our Regular Map & Library Committee, which will not meet before the 23rd', further adding 'I cannot gather from your letter whether we may retain them or not till that day' and also remarking 'There is only slight hope that the Committee will have them'. A few spots of foxing and some light traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise VG £100-150 Mungo Park (1771-1806) Scottish Explorer of West Africa.