Jules Pierre Verreaux Diary 1842-1845

3 volumes of textual material - photocopies, illustrated Location of originals unknown, possibly in the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris Jules Pierre Verreaux was a French naturalist, taxidermist and businessman. He was the nephew of naturalist Pierre Antoine Delalande, with whom he travelled to Africa at a young age. He also trained at the Paris Natural History Museum. He returned to the Cape in 1826 and stayed for ten years, collecting and expanding both South African and French museum collections. In 1842 he went to Australia. He returned to France in 1848 with thousands of specimens - mostly, birds, insects and mammals. The diary begins on 14 August 1842, the date on which he boards the Corvette de Charge(?) at Toulon to sail to Australia. Description of birds, insects, plants. The diary is illustrated with drawings of fish.