The Naturalist on the River Amazons
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
by Henry Walter Bates
AN APPRECIATION
BY CHARLES DARWIN Author of "The Origin of Species," etc.
From Natural History Review, vol. iii. 1863.
IN April, 1848, the author of the present volume left England in company with Mr. A. R. Wallace--"who has since acquired wide fame in connection with the Darwinian theory of Natural Selection"--on a joint expedition up the river Amazons, for the purpose of investigating the Natural History o ...