Pierre Jules (Jules) Verreaux (1807–73)

French naturalist, ornithologist, and taxidermist. Collected specimens in South Africa in 1820s and 30s. Keeper of the South African Museum 1834–6. Collected in Australia, 1842–8. Assistant naturalist of the museum at the Jardin des Plantes from 1865. Wrote mostly on birds. (DSAB, Tort 1996).