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Derscheid, Jean
A doctor from Brussels and president of the Belgian Cercle Zoologique Congolais, who was invited to join the Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley expedition by Akeley in September 1926, after Akeley had been in contact with the American Embassy in Brussels. Derscheid became a key figure, along with Mary Akeley, in completing Akeley's work after his death