Victor Gurney Logan van Someren (born 1886 in Melbourne, dead July 24, 1976), Australian ornithologist and entomologist. He studied zoology at George Watson's College in Edinburgh. Van Someren moved to Kenya in 1912 and lived in Nairobi. He was a member of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society where he became honorary secretary. In 1930 he was appointed curator of the Coryndon Museum (part of the Nairobi National Museum), where he was given a house on the grounds. Van Someren named a number of bird and butterfly species.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 68 taxon names authored by Victor Gurney Logan van Someren

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1911

• van Someren, R.A.L. & van Someren, V.G.L. 1911. Studies of Bird Life in Uganda. London: Bole & Danielson. OCLC 46570120. Reference page. 

1916

• Van Someren, V.G.L. 1916. A list of birds collected in Uganda an British East Africa, with notes on their nesting habits. Ibis, 10(4): 193–252 & 373–472. 

1939

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1939. Butterflies of the Chyulu Range. Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 14: 130–151. Reference page. 
• van Someren, V.G.L. 1939. New and Little-Known Lepidoptera from Kenya. Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 14:174 (172–180). Reference page. 

1952

• van Someren, V.G.L. & Jackson, T.H.E. 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. Reference page. 

1957

• van Someren, V.G.L. & Jackson, T.H.E. 1957. The Charaxes etheocles-ethalion complex (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) Supplement no. 1. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 23(1): 41–58. Reference page. 

1958

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1958. A new species and a new female form of Charaxes from Kenya Colony. Novos Taxa Entomologicos (11)4: 1-12. Reference page. 

1963

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1963. Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 13(7): 195–242. BHL Reference page. 

1964

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1964. Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part II. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 15(7): 181–235. BHL Reference page. 

1966

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1966. Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part III. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 18(3): 45–101. BHL Reference page. 

1967

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1967. Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IV. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 18(9): 277-316. Reference page. 

1969

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1969. Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part V. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 23(4): 75–166. Reference page. 

1970

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1970. Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VI. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 25(5): 197–250. BHL Reference page. 

1971

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1971: Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 26(4): 181–226. full article (BHL). Reference page. 

1972

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1972: Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VIII. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 215-264. Reference page. 

1974

• Van Someren, V.G.L. 8 February 1974. Revisional notes on African Charaxes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part IX.. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology., 29(8): 415–487. Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20131210014034/http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127336. Retrieved 12 April 2014. 

1975

• van Someren, V.G.L. 1975. Revisional notes on African Charaxes, Palla and Euxanthe (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part X. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 32(3): 65–136. BHL Reference page.