Who Paid for Exploration?

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In 1948 Henry Walter Bates and his friend Alfred Russel Wallace left Liverpool for the Amazon. They planned on funding their expedition by sending specimens back to England where an agent would sell them. They landed in Belem once called Para and stayed there for a year. They then agreed to move inland independently. He would then move up the Amazon. He would send approximately 15,000 species back to England of which 8,000 would be claimed as new. Of these, at least 550 would be butterflies. He is credited with the theory of Batesian Mimicry which bears his name, it is the theory of non-toxic or dangerous species mimicking the colors and patterns of toxic and dangerous species as a deterrent to predators. He would return to England in 1859 and work for the Royal Geographical Society for the rest of his life.

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William Adams (24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620) became the first Englishman to reach Japan (1600-16 may 1620) as part of a five ship expedition he came on the only ship that survived the De Liefde he eventually became one of the Hatamoto (basically a high ranking samurai)under shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu

Adams born in Gillingham Kent England his father died when he was twelve he eventually became apprenticed to Master Nicholas Diggins for the seafaring life at twenty-four he entered the royal navy

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