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Show 492 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. . N turalist to the Museum of VAL -VALENCIENNES (A.), AdJunct ~work on Fishes. P .· 'and my fellow labourer in the grea b of the Museum, of the An· aIlS, . bl" bed among t ose d H Author of various Memoirs pu IS oolo ical Observations of M. e um-nales des Sciences Naturelles, and of the z g boldt. (F ) stor at Amboyna. h VALEN'l'YN • ' a pa . M dero" (in Dutch), 5 vola folio. Dordrec t " The East Indies, Ancient and o and Amsterdam, 1724-1t 7.2 6.n umerous o b serva tions on tho Natural History of Am- The third volume con aiOs. . d ntical with those of Renard. boyna. The plates of the Fishes are I c V Professor at Dijon, . . C YALL·- ALLOT, 8 . a Memoir on certam spec1es of e· ' Has presented to tbe Acad.6mie ~esb cteh?ctes nth volume of the Annates des Sc. d h I o pubhsbed m t e t u ec h' h cidomyire, au as a s b't f th Anthril>us marmoratus, but w IC were Nat. some observations on the ba 1 so e made in Sweden by Dalman. VANDELLI, an Italian naturalist, Director of the Museum at Lisbon. " Author of certain Memo.u s on th e F'I S h e 9 of the river Amazon, published among those of the Academy of Lisbon. (P L) a physician and Professor v ANDER LIN.-v ANDER LINDEN . . ' ' of Natural History at Brusse~s, d c iption of the Libellulre of the terri· . h d . two Memous 4to, a es r f 'I Has pubhs e , m . h t of all the species of the same amt y tory of Bologna, and also 10 1 vol. 8vo, t a peculiar to Europe. tera of the family of the Fossores. Also observations on European Hym~~issai sur les Insectcs de Java et des Isles The first numbe•· of a w~l·k enti~led f Insect enclosed in a piece of scbistous Voisines ;" a notice of the tmpress•o.n o ;~ three last Memoirs are published in limestone frloAm Sollenhfot~:n ;~y~~;~r~~ience:~e Brussels, 1819, et seq. the Genera nna s o (J p the Reverend), Professor at Geneva. VAUOHER . . ' d uce" 1 vol. 4to. Geneva, 1803. . "Histoire des Conferves .d eau oz ' h t ublished in the Bulletin des Scl· Author of some observations on oop y es, p ences. (L p ) a naturalist of Paris, died 1828. V IEILL.-V IEILLOT •1 • b' Oiseaux Chauteurs de Ia zone torride," 1 vol. cc Ilistoire Naturelle des p us eaux fol"ioH. isPtoairries, N18a0tu5r.e lle des o·l seaux d e l' Amerique Septentrionale," of which but 2 vols folio have appeared. Pa.•·is, 180D7. •· " of Audibert and has given us an ti d tl e " 0 1seaux orees , He also con nue l • • Elementaire" pampblet8vo. Paris, 1816. " Analyse d'une nouvelle Ormtholo~e v'· 'II G I He assisted. in pub· d 0' , which JS quoted as 1e1 · a • " Galerie es lseaux, . , . d b D f: t and the" Nouveau Die· lishing the edition of Buffon's "Buds, pr~nte y u ar ' tionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle," by Detel'Vllle. VIGORs, an English naturalist and prm• c·l pa1 editor of the Zoolo· gical Journal. . ,, Author of various papers in the Linnean Transactions, &e. CATALOGUE OF A.UTIIORS. 493 VrLL·-VILLERs (Charles de), a naturalist of Lyons. " C. Linnrei Entomologia," 4 vols 8vo, with tolerably good plates. Lugduoi, 1789. A useful compilation at the time when it was published, and to which the author has added a description of various Insects peculiar to the southern departments of France. VrLL.-VILLIERS (Adrian P. de) Has published in the Annales de Ia Societe Linneenne de Paris, Nov. 1826, a description of three undescribed or but little known Lepidoptera of the south of France, with a plate in which they are figured. He there also rectifies the deserip• lion previously given of the" Bombyx Milhauseri." Vr!l D'Az.-Vx!l D'AzvR (Felix), born at Valogne in 1748, died at Paris in 1794; member of the Acad. des Sciences, and perpetual Secretary to the Societe Royale de Medecine. I quote his " Systeme Anatomique," which forms a portion of the Eneyclopedie Methodique, and of which only the second volume appeared, containing the Quadrumana and the Rodentia, 1 vol. 4to. Paris, 1795. VIREY (J. J. ), a physician and one of the editors of the "Journal de Pharmacie et des Sciences accessoires," in which he has published his "Histoire Naturelle des Vegetaux et des Inseetes qui les produisent," as well as "Recherches sur l'Insecte de Ia Gomme-laque." Vrv.-VrvrANI (Domenico), Professor of Botany and Natural His• tory at Genoa. " Phosphorescentia maria quatuordecim lucescentium Animaleulorum, Novis Speciebus illustrata," 1 vol. 4to. Genure, 1805. VosM.-VosMAER (Arnold), a Dutch naturalist who died in 1799J he was Curator of the Museum and Menagerie of t!te Stadtholder. Author of numerous Monographs (in Dutch and French) of various animal11, with coloured plates, from 1767. Vov. DE DuPER. The Zoological part of the "Voyage de Ia Coquille," under M. Duperrey. This portion of the work is by Messrs Lesson and Garnot. Vov. DE FREYOIN., or ZooL. DE FREYOIN. The Zoological portion of the "Voyage de l'Uranie," under M. de Freycinet. It is by Messrs Quoy and G.A.IMARD. WAGLER (John), a German naturalist, author of Ornithological fragments entitled " Systema Avium," editor of the History of Serpents in the Brazilian Zoology of Spix and Marti us, and author of Memoirs on Fishes in the Isis. t .. |
