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ALPHABETICAL TABLE OF AUTHORS 



" The East Indies, Ancient and Mo- 

 dem " (in Dutch), 5 vols, folio. 

 Dordrecht and Amsterdam, 1724 — 

 172fi. 



The third volume contains numerous 

 ohservations on the Natural History 

 of Aniboyna. The plates of the Fishes 

 are identical with those of Renard. 



Vall. — Vallot, Professor at 

 Dijou. 



Has presented to the Academie des Sci- 

 ences a Memoir on certain species of 

 Cecidomyias, and has also published 

 in the thirteenth volume of the An- 

 nales des Sc. Nat. some observations 

 on the habits of the Anthribus Mar- 

 moratus, but which were made in 

 Sweden by Dalman. 



Vandelli, an Italian naturalist, 

 Director of the Museum at Lisljon. 



Author of certain INIemoirs on the 

 Fishes of the river Amazon, pub- 

 lished among those of the Academy 

 of Lisbon. 



Vander Lin. — Vander Lin- 

 den, (P. L.), a physician and Pro- 

 fessor of Natural History at Brus- 

 sels. 



Has published, in two Memoirs, 4to. a 

 description of the Libellulre of the 

 territory of Bologna, and also in I vol. 

 8vo. that of all the species of the same 

 family peculiar to Europe. 



Also observations on European Hyme- 

 noptera 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 im- 

 pression of an Insect enclosed in a 

 piece of schistous limestone from So- 

 lenhofen in Bavaria. These three 

 last Memoirs are published in the 

 General Annals of the Physical Sci- 

 ences. 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 Zoo- 

 phytes, published in the Bulletin des 

 Sciences. 



ViEILL. — VlREI.OT (L. P.), a 



naturalist of Paris, died 1828. 



'• Histoire Naturelle des plus beaux 

 Oiseaux chanteurs de la zone tor- 

 ride," I vol. folio. Paris, IBdo. 



" Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de 

 I'Amerique Septentrionale," of which 

 but 2 vols, folio have appeared. Paris, 

 1807. 



He also continued the " Oiseaux Do- 

 rees" of Audibert, and has given us 

 an " Analyse d'une nouvelle Ornitho- 

 logie Elementaire," 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 Dufiirt, and the " Nou- 

 veau Dictionnaire d'Histoire Natu- 

 relle," by Deterville. 



Vigors, an English naturalist, 

 and principal editor of the Zoolo- 

 gical Journal. 



Author of various papers in the Lin- 

 nsean Transactions," &c. 



ViLL. — ViLLERs (Charles de), 

 a naturalist of Lyons. 



" C. Linnsei Entomologia," 4 vols. 8vo. 

 with tolerably good plates. Lua'duni, 

 1789. ■ >- ^ - ' 



A useful compilation at the time when 

 it was published, and to which the 

 author has added a description of va- 

 rious Insects jieculiar to the southern 

 departments of France. 



ViLL. — ViLLiERs (Adrian P. de) 



Has published in the Annales de la So- 

 ciete Linneenne de Paris, Nov. 1826, 

 a description of three undescribed or 

 but little known Lepidoptera of the 

 south of France, with a plate in whicli 

 they are figured. He there also rec- 

 tifies the description pi-eviously given 

 of the " Bomb3'x Milhauseri." 



ViQ d'Az. — ViR d'Azyr (Felix), 

 born at Valogne in 1748, died at 

 Paris in 1794 ; member of the 

 Acad, des Sciences, and perpetual 

 Secretary to the Societe Royale de 

 Medecine. I quote his 



" Systeme Anatomique," which forms a 

 portion of the Encyclopedic Metho- 

 dique, and of ^yhich only the second 

 volume appeared, containing the 

 Quadrumana and the Rodentia, 1 vol, 

 4to. Paris, 1795. 



ViREY (J. J.), a physician, and 

 one of the editors of the " Journal 

 de Pharmacie et des Sciences ac- 



