502 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 
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Vaiu., or Le Vartr.— Levariant (Francois), a celebrated travel- 
ler and collector, born at Surinam. His father was a Frenchman. 
Voy. I. 
‘s Voyage dans Vinterieur de l’Afrique par le Cap de Bonne-Esperance,”’ 2 
vols. Svo. Paris, 1790. 
Voy, II. 
“¢ Seconde Voyage dans l’interieur de l’Afrique,’’ &c., 1 vol. Svo. Paris, 1795. 
AFR. 
‘« Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux d’Afrique,’’ 5 vols. 4to. Paris, 1799, et seq. 
PERR. 
‘« Histoire Naturelle des Perroquets,’’ 2 vols. 4to. and folio. Paris, 1801. 
OIs DE PAR. 
“¢ Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de Paradis et des Rolliers, suivie de celle 
des Toucans et des Barbas,’’ 2 vols. folio. Paris, 1806. 
‘* Histoire Naturelle des Promerops 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.), a pastor 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 
Amboyna. The plates of the Fishes are identical with those of Renard. 
Vati.—Vatror, Professor at Dijon, 
Has presented to the Académie des Sciences a_ Memoir on certain species of 
Cicidomyiz, 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. 
Vanper Lin.—Vanver LinpEn (P. L.), a physician and Professor 
of Natural History at Brussels, 
Has published, in two Memoirs 4to., a description of the Libellule of the ter- 
ritory of Bologna, and also in 1 yol. 8yo, that of all the species of the same 
family peculiar to Europe. 
Also observations on European Hymewoptera 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. 
Vaucuer (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. 
Vieity.—Vierntor (L. P.), a naturalist of Paris, died 1828. 
‘¢ Histoire Naturelle des plus beaux Oiseaux Chauteurs de la zone torride,’’ 
1 vol. folio. Paris, 1895. 
‘¢ Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de l’Amerique Septentrionale,’’ of which 
but 2 vols. folio have appeared. Paris, 1807. 
He also continued the ‘‘ Oiseaux Dorées’’ of Audibert, and has given us an 
‘ Analyse d'une nouvelle Ornithologie Elémentaire,’’? pamphlet syo. Paris, 
1816. 
‘« Galerie des Oiseaux,’”’ which is quoted as Vieill. Gal. He assisted in pub- 
lishing the edition of Buffon’s ‘‘ Birds,’”’ printed by Dufart, and the ‘ Nou- 
veau Dictionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle,” by Deterville. 
