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492 CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 
Vau.—Varenciennes (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 An- 
nales des Sciences Naturelles, and of the Zoological Observations of M. de Hum- 
boldt. 
VALENTYN (F.), a pastor at Amboyna. 
“©The East Indies, Ancient and Modern” (in Dutch), 5 vols folio. Dordrecht 
and Amsterdam, 1724—1726. 
The third volume contains numerous observations on the Natural History of Am- 
boyna. The plates of the Fishes are identical with those of Renard. 
Varui.—Vatiot, Professor at Dijon, 
Has presented to the Académie des Sciences a Memoir on certain species of Ca- 
cidomyiz, 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 Lis- 
bon. 
‘* Author of certain Memoirs on the Fishes of the river Amazon, published among 
those of the Academy of Lisbon. 
Vanver Lin.—Vanver Linpen(P. L.), a physician and Professor 
of Natural History at Brussels, 
Has published, in two Memoirs 4to, a description of the Libellulz of the terri- 
tory of Bologna, and also in 1 vol. Svo, 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. 
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. 
ViEitt.—VIEILLoT (L. P.), a naturalist of Paris, died 1828. 
«« Histoire Naturelle des plus beaux Oiseaux Chauteurs de la zone torride,” 1 vol. 
folio. Paris, 1805. 
‘* Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de 1’ Amerique Septentrionale,” of which but 
2 vols folio have appeared. Paris, 1807. 
He also continued the “ Oiseaux Dorees” of Audibert, and has given us an 
“‘ Analyse d’une nouvelle Ornithologie Elémentaire,” pamphlet 8vo. 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 “‘ Nouveau Dic- 
tionnaire d’Histoire Naturelle,’ by Deterville. 
Vicors, an English naturalist and principal editor of the Zoolo- 
gical Journal. ‘ 
Author of various papers in the Linnean Transactions,” &c. 
