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The Butterfly Collectors

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

Collecting Insects and Ideas
In the second of his series on the great butterfly collectors,
Martin Wainwright looks at two great Victorian scholar-adventurers. Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter
Bates carried out research in South America and the Far East which led them to develop theories that underlie much of natural science today.
Readers MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES and ALAN DUDLEY
Producer JENNY HARGREAVES

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Wainwright
Unknown:
Alfred Russel
Unknown:
Henry Walter
Readers:
Michael Tudor Barnes
Readers:
Alan Dudley
Producer:
Jenny Hargreaves
Source: Radio Times

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