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Vitt.—Vitters (Charles de), a naturalist of Lyons. 
»  C. Linnei Entomologia,” 4 vols 8vo, with tolerably good plates. Lugduni, 
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. 
Vitit.—Viturers (Adrian P. de) 
Has published in the Annales de la Sociéte 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 descrip- 
tion previously given of the ‘“* Bombyx Milhauseri.”’ 
Viq v’Az.—Viq v’Azyr (Felix), born at Valogne in 1748, died 
at Paris in 1794; member of the Acad. des Sciences, and perpetual 
Secretary to the Societé Royale de Médecine. I quote his 
‘© Systéme Anatomique,”’ which forms a portion of the Encyclopédie Méthodique, 
and of which only the second volume appeared, containing the Quadrumana and 
the Rodentia, 1 vol. 4to. Paris, 1795. 
Viney (J. J.), a physician and one of the editors of the ** Journal 
de Pharmacie et des Sciences accessoires,’’ in which he has pub- 
lished his 
*¢ Histoire Naturelle des Vegetaux et des Insectes qui les produisent,” as well as 
* Recherches sur l’Insecte de la Gomme-laque.” 
Viv.—Vivrani (Domenico), Professor of Botany and Natural His- 
tory at Genoa. 
‘ Phosphorescentia maris quatuordecim Jucescentium Animalculorum, Novis 
Speciebus illustrata,” 1 vol. 4to. Gena, 1805. 
Vosm.—Vosmaerr (Arnold), a Dutch naturalist who died in 17993 
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. pE Durer. 
The Zoological part of the “* Voyage de la Coquille,” under M. Duperrey. This 
portion of the work is by Messrs Lesson and Garnot: 
Voy. pE Freycin., or Zoou. DE FREYCIN. 
The Zoological portion of the ‘« Voyage de I’Uranie,” under M. de Freycinet. It 
is by Messrs Quoy and GAIMARD. 
Wacter (John), a German naturalist, author of Ornithological 
fragments entitled 
« Systema Avium,” editor of the History of Serpents in the Brazilian Zoology of 
Spix and Martius, and author of Memoirs on Fishes in the Isis. 
