- Jules Verreaux
Jules Pierre Verreaux (
24 August 1807 -7 September 1873 ) was a Frenchbotanist ,ornithologist and professional collector of, and trader in,natural history specimens. He was the brother ofEdouard Verreaux and nephew ofPierre Antoine Delalande .Verreaux worked for his family business, Maison Verreaux, established in 1800 by his father, Jacques Philippe Verreaux, at 6 Boulevard Montmartre in Paris. [ [http://www.southpacifictaxidermy.com/html/brothers.htm South Pacific Taxidermy: The Verreaux brothers of France] ] Maison Verreaux was an emporium and dealership in natural history specimens which had, as a frequent client, the
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle to add to its collections.Verreaux travelled to
Australia in 1842 to collect plants. He returned to France in 1851 with a natural history collection reported to contain 15,000 items. In 1864 he took over fromFlorent Prévost as assistant naturalist at the Paris Museum.Verreaux also worked in
China andSouth Africa , where he helped Andrew Smith found the South African Museum inCape Town in 1825.He is commemorated in the names of
Verreaux's Eagle ("Aquila verreauxii"),Verreaux's Coua ("Coua verreauxi"), theWhite-tipped Dove ("Leptotila verreauxi") and theGolden Parrotbill ("Paradoxornis verreauxi").Mearns, Barbara; & Mearns, Richard. (1988). "Biographies for Birdwatchers. The lives of those commemorated in Western Palaearctic bird names". Academic Press: London. ISBN 0-12-487422-3]References
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