CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 503 



Vigors, an English naturalist and principal editor of the Zoologi- 

 cal Journal. 



Author of various papers in the Linnean Transactions, &c. 



ViLL. — ViLLERs (Charles de), a naturalist of Lyons. 



" C. Linnsei Entomologia," 4 vols. 8vo., with tolerably good plates. Liig- 

 duni, I 789. 



A useful compilation at the time when it was published, and to which the au- 

 thor has added a description of various Insects peculiar to the southern depart- 

 ments of France. 

 ViLL. — Villi ERS (Adrian P. dc) 



Has published in the Annalcs de la Socit'te Linnt-enne 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 de- 

 scription previously given of the " Bombyx Milhauseri." 



Viqd'Az, — ViQ d'Azyr (Felix), born at Valogne in 1748, died at 

 Paris in 1794 ; member of the Acad, des Sciences, and perpetual Se- 

 cretary to the Societe Royale dc Medecine. I quote his 



" Syst&mc Aiiatomique," which forms a portion of the Encyclopi^die Metho- 

 dique, and of which only the second volume appeared, containing the duadru- 

 mana and the Rodentia, 1 vol. 4to. Paris, 1795. 



ViREY (J. J.), a physician, and one of the editors of the " Journal 

 de Pharmacie et dcs Sciences accessoii'es" in which he has published 

 his 



" Histoire Naturelle des Vegetaux et des Insectes qui les produisent," as well 

 as " Reeherches sur I'lusecte de hi Gomme-laqne." 



Viv. — ViviANi (Domenico), Professor of Botany and Natural His- 

 tory at Genoa. 



" Phosphorescentia maris quatuordecim lucescentium Animalculorum, Novis 

 Speciebu; illustrata,'' 1 vol. 4to. Gennse, 1S03. 



VosM. — VosJiAER (Arnold), a Dutch naturalist, who died in 1/99; 

 he was Curator of the Museum and Menagerie of the Stadtholder. 



Author of numerous Monographs (in Dutch and French) of various animals, 

 with coloured plates, from 1767. 

 VOY. DE DUPER. 



The Zoological part of the " Voyage de la Coquille," under M. Duperrey. 

 This portion of the work is by Messrs. Lesson and Garnot. 



VoY. DE Freycin., or ZooL. DE Freycin. 



The Zoological portion of the " Voyage de I'Uranie," under M. de Freycinet. 

 It is by Messrs. QuoY and Gaimard. 



Wagler (John), a German naturalist, author of Ornithological 

 fragments entitled 



" Sy-itema Avium," editor of the History of Serpents in the Brazilian Zoo- 

 logy of Spix and Martins, and author of Memoirs on Fishes in the Isis. 



W ALB. — WalbauiM (J. J.), a physician of Lubeck, born 1724, 



Besides his edition of " Artedi,"'has given us (in German) a " Chelono- 

 graphia," or Description of certain Tortoises, 1 vol. 4to. Lubeck and Leipzic, 

 1782. 



Also some Memoirs inserted amongst those of the Naturalists of Berhn. 



Walch (J. E. E.), Professor at Jena, born in 1725 and died in 

 177B. 



Author of the text of Knorr's " Monuments," &c. See Kuorr. 

 Walck.— Walckenaer (C. A.), member of the Academic des In- 

 scriptions et Belles-Lettres. 



" Faune Parisienue," 2 vols. Svo. Paris, 180 2. 



" Tableau dss Araneides," in numbers, like those of Panzer on the Insects 

 of Germany. But five have appeared. 



