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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.
Henry Walter Bates
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Henry Walter Bates
Age: 67 †
Born: 1825
Born: February 8
Died: 1892
Died: February 16
Ecologist
Entomologist
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Lepidopterist
Naturalist
Zoologist
Leicester
England
H. W. Bates
H. Bates
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