Muséum de Bordeaux

This guide to the Museum de Bordeaux tells the story of Pierre Arnouil, an amateur with no scientific post who spent sixty-two years, from 1938 to 2000, skinning, stuffing and mounting birds in a back room, unpaid and unasked. It traces the six hundred seventy mounts and ten handwritten notebooks he left behind, each specimen labeled with its species, location and date like a scientist's record. Look for his small handwritten labels on the cases in front of you, recording exactly what he found and when.