Alexandre Dumas | Alexandre Benois | Alexandre Guilmant | Rodrigues | F.C. Paços de Ferreira | Alexandre Yersin | Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis | Alexandre Pires | Alexandre Herculano | Alexandre Dumas, fils | Alexandre Barbera-Ivanoff | Alexandre-Antonin Taché | Zacarías Ferreíra | Paços de Ferreira | Nelson Rodrigues | Louis-Alexandre Taschereau | Jordan Rodrigues | Emerson Ferreira da Rosa | Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois | Alexandre Michon | Alexandre Lenoir | Alexandre Koyré | Alexandre Calame | Alexandre-Athenase Noghès | Rodrigues (island) | Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny | Pierre-Alexandre Aveline | Maria João Rodrigues | Lyndsey Rodrigues | Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron |
According to the Show Guide, the collections were organized in eight halls, especially redecorated for the occasion, receiving the names of naturalists and missionaries of the past, such as Pero Vaz de Caminha, Jean de Lery, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, José de Anchieta, Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira, and contemporary scientists, such as Martius, Hartt and Lund.
In 1860 he succeeded in getting back some collections which were removed from the Museum during the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal, by the French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), which included precious specimens collected by Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira (1756–1815) in Brazil.