In his lifetime he wrote several books on subjects such as the South American mouse opossums and the mammals of the Pacific and East Asia.
At the end of the war, he studied at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London without taking a degree.
He then migrated back to the United States and became a field assistant in mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History.
[1] In September 1927, sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, he went to look for Paul Redfern, the missing aviator.
[1][2] Tate is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of South American lizard, Neusticurus tatei,[4] and in the plant genus of Tateanthus (belonging to the family Melastomataceae) from Brazil and Venezuela.