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Victor Van Someren

{{Short description|Australian entomologist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2023}}

{{Use Australian English|date=August 2011}}

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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.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} He was also a dentist.{{Cite thesis |last=Crozier |first=Anna |title=The Colonial Medical Officer and colonial identity: Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania before World War Two. |date=January 2005 |access-date=3 February 2024 |degree=Doctor of Philosophy |publisher=University College London |url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1444617/1/U591926.pdf}} 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.{{Cite book |last=East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50555008 |title=The Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society |date=1921 |publisher=Longmans, Green |volume=[v.6]=no.16-20 (1921-1924) |location=London |pages=Title page}} In 1930 he became Curator of the Coryndon Museum.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} Van Someren named a number of bird and butterfly species.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

Species named after him include the fish Labeobarbus somereni.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

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.{{Cite journal|last=van Someren |first=V. G. L.

|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/102952

|title= Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part I

|journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology |last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |date=1963 |volume=v.13 (1962-1963) |location=London}}

  • 1964 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 181–235. {{Cite journal|last=van Someren |first=V. G. L.

|title= Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part II

|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19371 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology |date=1963 |volume=v.15 (1963-1965) |location=London}}

  • 1966 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 45–101. {{Cite journal|last=van Someren |first=V. G. L.

|title= Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part III |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19523 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology |date=1966 |volume=v.18 (1966-1967) |location=London}}

  • 1967 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IV. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 277–316. {{Cite journal|last=van Someren |first=V. G. L.

|title= Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part IV |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19523 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology|date=1966 |volume=v.18 (1966-1967) |location=London}}

  • 1969 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 75–166. {{Cite journal|last=van Someren |first=V. G. L.

|title= Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part V|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19545 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology |date=1969 |volume=v.23 (1969) |location=London}}

  • 1970 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VI. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 197–250. {{Cite journal|last=van Someren |first=V. G. L.

|title= Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part VI |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19402 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology |date=1970 |volume=v.25 (1970-1971) |location=London}}

  • 1971 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 181–226. {{Cite journal|last=van Someren |first=V. G. L.

|title= Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part VII |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19576 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology |date=1971 |volume=v.26 (1971-1972) |location=London}}

  • 1972 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VIII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Entomology) 215–264. {{Cite journal|last=van Someren |first=V. G. L.

|title= Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part VIII |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127337 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology |date=1973 |volume=v.27 (1973) |location=London}}

  • 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Entomology) 29 (8):415–487. {{Cite journal|last=van Someren |first=V. G. L.

|title= Revisional Notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part IX |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127336 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology |date=1975 |volume=v.29 (1975) |location=London}}

  • 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. {{Cite journal |last=van Someren |first=V. G. L. |date=1976 |title=Revisional Notes on African Charaxes, Palla and Euxanthe (Lepidoptera Nymphalidae) Part X |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40998858 |journal=Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology |location=London |volume=v.32 (1976)}}

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