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BATEMAN, HEZEKIAH LINTHICUM (1812–1875)

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BATEMAN, See also:HEZEKIAH LINTHICUM (1812–1875) , See also:American actor and manager, was See also:born in See also:Baltimore, See also:Maryland, on the 6th of See also:December 1812. He was intended for an engineer, but in 1832 became an actor, playing with Ellen See also:Tree (afterwards Mrs See also:Charles See also:Kean) in juvenile leads. In 1855 he was manager of the St See also:Louis See also:theatre for a few years and in 1859 moved to New See also:York. In 1866 he was manager for his daughter Kate, and in 1871 returned to See also:London, where he took the See also:Lyceum theatre. Here he engaged See also:Henry See also:Irving, presenting him first in The Bells, with See also:great success. He died on the 22nd of See also:March 1875• His wife, See also:SIDNEY FRANCES (1823-1881), daughter of See also:Joseph See also:Cowell, an See also:English actor who had settled in See also:America, was also an actress and the author of several popular plays, in one of which, Self (1857), She and her See also:husband made a great success. After her husband's See also:death Mrs Bateman continued to See also:manage the Lyceum till 1875. She later took the See also:Sadler's See also:Wells theatre, which she managed until her death on the 13th of See also:January 1881. She was the first to bring to See also:England an entire American See also:company with an American See also:play, Joaquin See also:Miller's The Danites. Mr and Mrs Bateman had eight See also:children, three of the four daughters being educated for the See also:stage. The two See also:oldest, Kate' See also:Josephine (b. 1842), and Ellen (b.

1845), known as the" Bateman children," began their theatrical career at an See also:

early See also:age. In 186 2 Kate played in New York as Juliet and See also:Lady See also:Macbeth; and in of See also:insects new to See also:science. His See also:long See also:residence in the tropics, with the privations which it entailed, undermined his See also:health. Nor had the See also:exile from See also:home the See also:compensation of freeing him from See also:financial cares, which hung heavy on him till he had the See also:good See also:fortune to be appointed in 1864 assistant-secretary of the Royal See also:Geographical Society, a See also:post which, to the inestimable gain of the society, and the See also:advantage of a See also:succession of explorers, to whom he was alike See also:Nestor and See also:Mentor, he retained till his death on the 16th of See also:February 1892. See also:Bates is best known as the author of one of the most delightful books of travel in the English See also:language, The Naturalist on the See also:Amazons (1863), the See also:writing of which, as the See also:correspondence between the two has shown, was due to Charles See also:Darwin's persistent urgency. " Bates," wrote Darwin to See also:Sir Charles See also:Lyell, " is second only to See also:Humboldt in describing a tropical See also:forest." But his most memorable contribution to biological science, and more especially to that See also:branch of it which deals with the agencies of modification of organisms, was his See also:paper on the " See also:Insect See also:Fauna of the See also:Amazon Valley," read before the Linnaean Society in 1861. He therein, as Darwin testified, clearly stated and solved the problem of " See also:mimicry," or the superficial resemblances between totally different See also:species and the likeness between an See also:animal and its surroundings, whereby it evades its foes or conceals itself from its See also:prey. Bates's other contributions to the literature of science and travel were sparse and fugitive, but he edited for several years a periodical of Illustrated Travels. A See also:man of varied tastes, he devoted the larger See also:part of his leisure to See also:entomology, notably to the See also:classification of See also:coleoptera. Of these he See also:left an extensive and unique collection, which, fortunately for science, was See also:purchased intact by Rene Oberthur of See also:Rennes.

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