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MR. G. L. BATES, who died on January 31, was born in the State of Illinois in 1863. He was the eldest son of a large family, and inherited his love of natural history from his mother. He was educated at Galesburg and Chicago, and it was his father's wish that he should enter the Church. However, he had a great desire to travel and study Nature, and he persuaded his father to send him to West Africa in 1895. His first years were spent in Gabon and the French Congo, and later he settled in the former German colony of Cameroon.
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KINNEAR, N. Mr. G. L. Bates. Nature 145, 291 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145291a0
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