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George Latimer Bates

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20: 97:. He worked in the summer to help produce maps for the Santa Fe Railroad in Knox County and Galesburg. After graduating with a doctor of letters from Knox College in 1885, he became a teacher in Hawaii but quit after a few months. He then worked as a surveyor for a railroad company in Tennessee. Following his parents' wishes, he joined the 867:"Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Arabia .β€” Jennings Michael C. , Ed. 2010. Fauna of Arabia, vol. 25. King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Saudi Wildlife Commission, Riyadh; and Senckenburg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Michael C.. 751 pp. ISBN 9783929907834. Hardcover, $ 301.00" 135:
in the Spanish Guinea. It was only in 1916 that he returned to his plantation and by 1921 he had travelled across the Cameroon which was controlled by Britain and France. He wrote on the structure of the underwing coverts in 1918. In 1922, he travelled to Nigeria and in 1927, he visited the northwest
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noted in 1906 that Bates' specimens were valuable and that there were several new species. By 1928, the number of specimens he had sent to the museum was estimated at 6905. During World War I, Bates was unable to send specimens and he began to spend more time on his farm cultivating cocoa, coffee and
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ostensibly to work in a Presbyterian Mission but primarily to collect natural history specimens. There, he took an interest in the local language and began to document the Bulu grammar and vocabulary. This led to a publication of a textbook in 1926. He lived initially at Senji, later at Efulen near
45:. He lived in central Africa and travelled widely, collecting specimens of natural history from which numerous new species were described. As many as 62 new species of mammals, reptiles and amphibians were described from his collections, including the 164:
at the age of 70 in 1934 on the invitation of Philby. He spent three months and collected more than 500 specimens. Bates trained Philby's servant to skin and had an Indian clerk, Mahbub Elahi Kazi, collect specimens with a 16-bore gun. He also left a
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rubber trees: his may have been the earliest rubber plantations in the region. The German authorities forced him to hand over his guns (used for bird collecting) and he was asked to leave the region in 1915. He then moved south on foot to
152:. In 1930, he made a collecting trip to Sierra Leone for the Natural History Museum, and also visited Guinea and Mount Nimba. In 1931, he went on another expedition to Mali. He was asked to examine the specimen collection of 118:, making a living from farming. He was known by the locals as "Bitye" and he called his farm by the same name. He collected natural history specimens both around him and on his travels and sent many of these to the 85:. He went to school where he learned Latin and became interested in languages. He got an interest in natural history from his teacher Leanna Hague who took the class on botanical trips. He went to study at 126:. He made use of native hunters to assist him in his collections. Some of the natives believed that he sought to collect male and female specimens so as to populate his own country with the bird species. 177:
to send a skinner named Fateh Khan to Arabia. The skinner, however, proved to be inexperienced, fell sick, and was forced to return to India. Philby's specimens included several new species including
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where he studied Greek and Hebrew and graduated with a theology degree in 1892. He then taught at Ward Academy in South Dakota, using his free time to study the plants of the region.
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shotgun for Philby to obtain more bird specimens even though the latter found it difficult to skin birds. Because of this,
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Manuscripts and drawings in the Ornithology and Rothschild libraries of the Natural History Museum at Tring
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which he requested be named after his wife Dora. He also had a subspecies of owl named as
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was named after him and several species of bird bear his name including the rare
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who added various embellishments and gave little credit to Bates. Bates died in
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named after Miss Pamela Lovibond, a friend and librarian at the
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael & Grayson, Michael (2013).
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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Bates, George Latimer; Philby, H. St. J. B. (1936).
215:following a surgery and recurring serious illness. 197:but wrote several papers on Arabian birds for the 144:Bates left Africa and moved to live in England in 448:"The British contribution to African ornithology" 971:. London: Natural History Museum. p. 11. 540:Bates, George Latimer; Philby, J. B. (1936). 8: 344:Comparative Studies in Society and History 279:: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( 915: 882: 524: 379:Birders of Africa. History of a network 256: 272: 7: 294: 292: 290: 203:. His unpublished manuscript on the 150:Handbook of the Birds of West Africa 114:Great Batanga in the German part of 61:Handbook of the Birds of West Africa 1006:The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians 247:), twenty birds, and four mammals. 1009:. Pelagic Publishing. p. 17. 845:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1937.tb02176.x 814:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1937.tb02162.x 783:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1936.tb03401.x 752:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1934.tb01618.x 721:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1934.tb01565.x 690:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1934.tb01543.x 659:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1934.tb01338.x 628:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1933.tb03362.x 597:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1931.tb01518.x 495:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1927.tb05641.x 464:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1959.tb02360.x 433:10.1111/j.1474-919X.1940.tb01661.x 193:. Bates was unable to publish the 14: 1045:A photograph of Bates in Cameroon 983:The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles 941:"Obituary. George Latimer Bates" 269:. Galesburg. 1916. p. 104. 1075:People from Abingdon, Illinois 827:Bates, George Latimer (1937). 796:Bates, George Latimer (1937). 734:Bates, George Latimer (1934). 703:Bates, George Latimer (1934). 672:Bates, George Latimer (1934). 641:Bates, George Latimer (1934). 610:Bates, George Latimer (1933). 579:Bates, George Latimer (1931). 175:Bombay Natural History Society 1: 27:George Griswold Latimer Bates 446:Bannerman, David A. (1959). 223:A species of African snake, 154:Harry St John Bridger Philby 99:Chicago Theological Seminary 305:Archives of Natural History 1091: 993:. ("Bates, G. L.", p. 19). 884:10.1525/auk.2012.129.1.181 299:Cowles, Graham S. (1997). 89:, and then transferred to 558:10.1111/ibi.1936.78.4.674 356:10.1017/S0010417506000235 338:Jacobs, Nancy J. (2006). 317:10.3366/anh.1997.24.2.213 186:Otus senegalensis pamelae 1040:Archives at Knox College 53:, and the Goliath shrew 1060:American ornithologists 898:Kinnear, N. B. (1940). 238:Phrynobatrachus batesii 33:US – January 31, 1940 415:Kinnear, N.B. (1940). 377:Jacobs, Nancy (2016). 266:Knox College Catalogue 128:Richard Bowdler Sharpe 120:Natural History Museum 23: 939:Palmer, T.S. (1943). 477:Bates, G. L. (1927). 392:Bates, G. L. (1918). 209:Richard Meinertzhagen 22: 877:(1): 181–182. 2012. 519:(2): 273–274. 1930. 232:Astylosternus batesi 109:In 1895, he went to 81:Bates was born near 965:Warr, F.E. (1996). 244:Nectophryne batesii 16:American naturalist 226:Rhamnophis batesii 207:was later used by 83:Abingdon, Illinois 31:Abingdon, Illinois 24: 1016:978-1-907807-42-8 991:978-1-4214-0135-5 910:(3669): 291–291. 900:"Mr. G. L. Bates" 180:Dendrocopus dorae 87:Lincoln, Illinois 59:. 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Index


Abingdon, Illinois
Chelmsford
M.B.O.U.
naturalist
Goliath frog
hairy frog
Crocidura goliath
Batesanthus
Bates's weaver
Abingdon, Illinois
Lincoln, Illinois
Knox College
Galesburg
Chicago Theological Seminary
West Africa
Cameroon
Natural History Museum
London
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Rio Beneto
Little Watham
Harry St John Bridger Philby
Arabic
Arabia
.410 bore
Norman Kinnear
Bombay Natural History Society
Dendrocopus dorae
Otus senegalensis pamelae

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