Valentine Ball (14 July 1843 – 15 June 1895) was an Irish geologist, son of Robert Ball (1802–1857) and a brother of Sir Robert Ball. Ball worked in the Geological Survey of India for twenty years before returning to take up a position in Ireland. (From Wikipedia) More about V. Ball:
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| | Books by V. Ball: Ball, V. (Valentine), 1843-1895: Jungle Life in India: or the Journeys and Journals of an Indian Geologist (London: T. De La Rue and Co., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust) Ball, V. (Valentine), 1843-1895, trans.: Travels in India, by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, Translated From the Original French Edition of 1676 With a Biographical Sketch of the Author, Notes, Appendices, &c. (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889), by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier Ball, V. (Valentine), 1843-1895, trans.: Travels in India, by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, Translated From the Original French Edition of 1676 With a Biographical Sketch of the Author, Notes, Appendices, &c. (second edition; London: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1925), by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, ed. by William Crooke
Additional books by V. Ball in the extended shelves: Ball, V. (Valentine), 1843-1895: The coalfields of India. (Geological Survey of India, 1913), also by R. R. Simpson (page images at HathiTrust) Ball, V. (Valentine), 1843-1895: The coalfields of India. (sold at the office of the Geological Survey of India, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust) Ball, V. (Valentine), 1843-1895: The diamonds, coal, and gold of India : their mode of occurrence and distribution (Trübner & Co., 1881) (page images at HathiTrust) Ball, V. (Valentine), 1843-1895: A manual of the geology of India. (Geological Survey Office, 1879), also by Geological Survey of India, Frederick Richard Mallet, William Thomas Blanford, and Henry Benedict Medlicott (page images at HathiTrust) Ball, V. (Valentine), 1843-1895: A manual of the geology of India. Economic geology. (Office of the Geological Survey; [etc., etc.], 1898), also by Geological Survey of India and Thomas Henry Holland (page images at HathiTrust) Ball, V. (Valentine), 1843-1895: Travels in India. (Macmillan and co., 1889), also by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (page images at HathiTrust)
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