Victor Van Someren
Victor Gurney Logan Van Someren 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. 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. 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
Parts
- 1963 Revisional notes on African Charaxes. Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum 195–242.
- 1964 Revisional notes on African Charaxes. Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum 181–235.
- 1966 Revisional notes on African Charaxes. Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum 45–101.
- 1967 Revisional notes on African Charaxes. Part IV. Bulletin of the British Museum 277–316.
- 1969 Revisional notes on African Charaxes. Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum 75–166.
- 1970 Revisional notes on African Charaxes. Part VI. Bulletin of the British Museum 197–250.
- 1971 Revisional notes on African Charaxes. Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum 181–226.
- 1972 Revisional notes on African Charaxes. Part VIII. Bulletin of the British Museum 215–264.
- 1974 Revisional notes on African Charaxes. Part IX. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 29 :415–487.
- 1975 Revisional notes on African Charaxes, Palla and Euxanthe. Part X. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 32 :65–136.
