502 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 



VAiLL.,or Le Vaill. — Levaillant (Fraii9ois), a celebrated travel- 

 ler and cullector, born at Surinam. His father was a Frenchman, 



VOY. I. 



" Voyage dans I'interieur de I'Afriquc par le Cap de Boune-Esperance," 2 

 vols. 8vo. Paris, 1790. 



Vov. II. 



" Seconde Voyage dans rinterieur de I'Afrique," &c., l vol. 8vo. Paris, 1795. 



Afr. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d'Afrique," 5vol«.'lto. Paris, 1799,etseq. 



Perr. 



•' Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets," 2 vols. 4to. and folio. Paris, 1801. 



Ois DE Par. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des RoUiers, suivie de celle 

 des Toucans et des Barbas," 2 vols, folio. Paris, 1S06. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Proraerops et des Gnepiers," folio. Paris, 1807. 

 Val. — Valenciennes (A.), Adjunct Naturalist to the Museum of 

 Paris, and my fellow labourer in the great work on Fishes. 



Author of various Memoirs published among those of the Museum of the 

 Annales des Sciences Naturelles, and of the Zoological Observations of M. de 

 Humboldt. 



Valentyn (F.),ai)astor at Amboyna. 



" The East Indies, Ancient and Modern" (in Dutch), 5 vols, folio. Dor- 

 drecht and Amsterdam, 1724 — 1726. 



The third volume contains numerous observations on the Natural History of 

 Araboyna. The plates of the Fishes are identical with those of Renard. 

 Vall. — Vallot, Professor at Dijon, 



Has presented to the Academic des Sciences a Memoir on certain species of 

 CicidomyiiE, and has also published in the thirteenth volume of the Annales des 

 Sc. Nat. some observations on the habits of the Anthribus marmoratus, but 

 which were made in Sweden by Dalman. 



Vandelli, an Italian naturalist, Director of the Museum at Lisbon. 



" Author of certain Memoirs on the Fishes of the river Amazon, published 

 among those of the Academy of Lisbon. 



Vander Lin. — Yander Linden (P. L.), a physician and Professor 

 of Natural History at Brussels, 



Has published, in two Memoirs -ito., a description of the Libellula; of the ter- 

 ritory of Bologna, and also in 1 vol. 8vo. that of all the species of the same 

 family peculiar to Europe. 



Also observations on European Hymenoptera of the family of the Fossores. 



The first number of a work entitled " Essai sur les Insectes de Java et des 

 Isles Voisines ;" a notice of the impression of an Insect enclosed in a piece of 

 schistous limestone from Solenhofen in Bavaria. These three last Memoirs 

 are published in the General Annals of the Physical Sciences. Brussels, 1819, 

 et seq. 



Vaucher (J. p. the Reverend), Professor at Geneva. 



" Histoire des Conferves d'eau douce," 1 vol. 4to. Geneva, 1803. 

 Author of some observations on Zoophytes, published in the Bulletin des Sci- 

 ences. 



ViEiLL. — ViEiLLOT (L. P.), a natuialist of Paris, died I828.5!y 



" Histoire Naturelle des plus beaux Oiseaux Chauteurs de la zone torride," 

 1 vol. folio. Paris, 1805. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de I'Amerique Septeutrionale," of which 

 but 2 vols, folio have appeared. Paris, 1807. 



He also continued the " Oiseaux Dories" of Audibert, and has given us an 

 «' Analyse d'une nouvelle Ornithologie Elementaire," pamphlet 8vo. Paris, 

 1816. 



" Galerie des Oiseaux," vhich is quoted as Vieill. Gal. He assisted in pub- 

 lishing the edition of Buifon's "Birds," piintcd by Dufart, and the " Nou- 

 veau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle," by Deterville. 



