Jules Verreaux

Jules Pierre Verreaux , born the August 24th 1807 and dead the September 7th 1873 probably in England, is a Botaniste and a Ornithologue French.

He is the brother of Edouard Verreaux (1810-1868) and the nephew Pierre Antoine Delalande (1787-1923), preparer with the national Muséum of natural history of Paris.

Its interest for the natural history is supported by the home environment: his/her father, empaillor, holding a trade of objects of Natural history.

In 1818, his/her uncle, Delalande, take it along with him in a forwarding in South Africa from where it will pay, after three years of effort, more than 13.000 specimens (of which a thousand of species of Insecte S). To its return to Paris, it follows the courses of Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) and of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861).

Allured by the beauty of this area, Verreau turns over to the Cape in 1825 when there remain thirteen years. It provides in specimen the trade of his father and takes part in the foundation of the Natural history museum of natural history of the Cape of the zoologist Sir Andrew Smith (1797-1872).

With his brother, Edouard, it also goes on journeys in Southeast Asia (China, Cochinchine, Filipino)

Verreaux hopes that the immense collections that it pays to Paris in 1838 him will ensure the place which it deserves. Unfortunately, the boat that it brings back it to France, the Lucullus , made shipwreck with broad of La Rochelle: Verreaux is the only survivor and all is lost. After having worked some time in the shop of his father, it obtains a place, in 1842, with the Natural history museum of Paris as naturalist traveller.

It then starts a voyage five years in Australia and Tasmanie and returns to France with a collection of 15.000 specimens.

In 1864, it obtains a place of assistant naturalist to the Natural history museum where it deals with taxidermy (in particular of settings in scene, very with the vogue then, where the animals are presented in a natural posture).

Jules Verreaux is regarded as one of the largest ornithologists of his time. Various species were dedicated to him of which:

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