Jules Verreaux

Jules Pierre Verreaux (24 August 1807 – 7 September 1873) was a French botanist and ornithologist and a professional collector of and trader in natural history specimens.

[2][3] Maison Verreaux sold many specimens to the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle to add to its collections.

Verreaux returned to the burial site under cover of night to dig up the African's body where he retrieved the skin, the skull and a few bones.

Verreaux intended to ship the body back to France and so prepared and preserved the African warrior's corpse by using metal wire as a spine, wooden boards as shoulder blades and newspaper as a stuffing material.

He is commemorated in the names of: Biography of Jules Verreaux at the S2A3 Biographical Database of Southern African Science

Portrait from the 1860s
Lion Attacking a Dromedary is a taxidermy diorama by the Verreaux brothers. It was acquired by the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh in 1898, and the mannequin called the "Arab courier" was later found to include human remains, namely a skull with teeth . The stuffed animals are a dromedary , and male and female lions . [ 1 ]