- Pierre Antoine Delalande
Pierre Antoine Delalande (
March 27 ,1787 -June 27 ,1823 ) was a French naturalist andexplorer .Delalande was employed by the
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle to collect natural history specimens. He travelled toBrazil in 1816 to collect specimens for the museum. [Gunn, Mary and Codd, L.E. (1981). "Botanical Exploration of Southern Africa", p. 128. Cape Town: A.A. Balkema. ISBN 0869611291]In 1818 he began an expedition to
South Africa with his nephewJules Verreaux , who was around 12 years old at the time, to collect specimens. Delalande and Verreaux travelled and collected in South Africa for three years. On their return in 1821, they took back an astounding 13,405 specimens, [Farber, Paul Lawrence (2000). "Finding Order in Nature: The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E.O. Wilson", p. 26. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801863902.] mostly plant material. Their collection included 288 mammals, 2205 birds, 322 reptiles, 265 fish, 3875 shellfish, and various human skulls and skeletons from aCape Town cemetery and from the 22 April 1819 Battle ofGrahamstown between the British forces under Colonel Willshire and theXhosa under Nxele.Notes
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* [http://www.southpacifictaxidermy.com/html/brothers.htm The Verreaux brothers]
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