Victor Van Someren Explained

Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren (1886 in Melbourne – 24 July 1976) was a zoologist and entomologist. Van Someren was born in Australia. He attended George Watson's College and studied zoology at University of Edinburgh. He was also a dentist.^[1] Van Someren moved to Kenya in 1912 and lived in Nairobi. He was in the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society and became Honorary Secretary.^[2] In 1930 he became Curator of the Coryndon Museum. Van Someren named a number of bird and butterfly species.

Species named after him include the fish Labeobarbus somereni.

Works

• Bird Life in Uganda
• Notes on Birds of Uganda and East Africa
• with Thomas Herbert Elliot Jackson, 1952 The Charaxes etheocles-ethalion complex: a tentative reclassification of the group (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 103:257–284.
• with Jackson, T.H.E., 1957 The Charaxes etheocles-ethalion complex (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Supplement No. 1. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 23:41–58.
• Revisional Notes on the African Charaxes. Pts 1–10 (1963–1975) 652 pages 148 plates.
  • 1963 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 195–242.^[3]
  • 1964 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 181–235. ^[4]
  • 1966 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 45–101.^[5]
  • 1967 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IV. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 277–316. ^[6]
  • 1969 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 75–166. ^[7]
  • 1970 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VI. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 197–250. ^[8]
  • 1971 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 181–226.^[9]
  • 1972 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VIII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 215–264. ^[10]
  • 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415–487. ^[11]
  • 1975 Revisional notes on African Charaxes, Palla and Euxanthe (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part X. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 32 (3):65–136.^[12]

Notes and References

1. Crozier . Anna . The Colonial Medical Officer and colonial identity: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania before World War Two. . January 2005 . 3 February 2024 . Doctor of Philosophy . University College London .
2. Book: East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society . The Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society . 1921 . Longmans, Green . [v.6]=no.16-20 (1921-1924) . London . Title page.
3. van Someren . V. G. L.. Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology . 1963 . v.13 (1962-1963) . London.
4. van Someren . V. G. L. . Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology . 1963 . v.15 (1963-1965) . London.
5. van Someren . V. G. L. . Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part III . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology . 1966 . v.18 (1966-1967) . London.
6. van Someren . V. G. L. . Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part IV . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology. 1966 . v.18 (1966-1967) . London.
7. van Someren . V. G. L. . Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology . 1969 . v.23 (1969) . London.
8. van Someren . V. G. L. . Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part VI . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology . 1970 . v.25 (1970-1971) . London.
9. van Someren . V. G. L. . Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part VII . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology . 1971 . v.26 (1971-1972) . London.
10. van Someren . V. G. L. . Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part VIII . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology . 1973 . v.27 (1973) . London.
11. van Someren . V. G. L. . Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part IX . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology . 1975 . v.29 (1975) . London.
12. van Someren . V. G. L. . 1976 . Revisional Notes on African Charaxes, Palla and Euxanthe (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part X . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology . London . v.32 (1976).