Van Someren Was an Ornithologist Who Was Connect- Veitch Published in 1892–1894

1896 A traveller’s notes or notes of a tour through India, V Malaysia, Japan, Corea, the Australian Colonies and New Zealand during the years 1891–1893. London: James Veitch and Sons, Royal Exotic Nursery. (For private circulation only.) Description: [2], fold. col. map, [6], 7–219, [colophon]; many illus. after author’s photographs, 9 pl. in hand photogravure, front. is a col. map. Van Someren, Vernon Donald (1896?–before 2012) Contents. The book is a slight reworking of the articles Van Someren was an ornithologist who was connect- Veitch published in 1892–1894. The plates in hand ed with the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi. photogravure are: I. Corypha umbraculifera. Talipot Otherwise little is known about him. He was probably Palm Bearing Seed (opposite p. 9), II. Ficus elastica. born in Midlothian, Scotland, around 1896 and died Assam India Rubber (opposite p. 40), III. Brownea before 2012. Presumably related to the three ornithol- grandiceps (opposite p. 52), IV. Caryota urens (Kihel) ogist-brothers R.A.L. van Someren (1880–1955), V.G.L. (opposite p. 67), V. Ravenala madagascariensis (opposite van Someren (1886–1976) and Noël van Someren p. 69), VI. Lodoicea seychellarum, Double Cocoa-nut (d.1921). Palm (opposite p. 82), VII. Bamboo at Kioto (opposite p. 111), VIII. Pine Tree at Kinhakuji. Trained into the [1958] form of a sailing junk (opposite p. 113), IX. Cryptomeria A bird watcher in Kenya. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. japonica at Nikko (opposite p. 133). Description: xvi, 270; 16 pl. with 32 photographs. Venema, Gerard Frouko Veitch, James Herbert (1868–1907) See Brongersma, Leo Daniël & Gerard Frouko Venema. E. Baigent, ‘Veitch family (per.1768–1929)’, ODNB, accessed 04-03-2012 ■ Shephard 2003. VerHuell, Quirinus Maurits Rudolph (1787–1860) The family name is also written as Ver Huell ■ The British horticulturist James Herbert Veitch, eldest Introductory matter in the 2008 edition of VerHuell son of John Gould Veitch (1839–1870), came from 1835–1836 (below) ■ Troelstra 2008, p. 276–278 ■ Ver a famous family of horticulturists. He was born in Huell 1996. Chelsea, London, on 1 May 1868, and died in Exeter on 13 November 1907. The Dutch naturalist and naval officer Quirinus He was educated at Crawford College, Maidenhead Maurits Rudolph VerHuell was born in Zutphen on 11 and went on to study technical subjects in France and September 1787 as the scion of a family that brought Germany. He began working for the Chelsea nursery forth many military men and administrators. Most of of the family firm in 1885, later also at Coombe Wood his youth was spent in Doesburg where his parents (Surrey); Langley (Buckinghamshire) and Feltham lived, and near Vorden, where his grandfather had an (Middlesex). In 1889 he was elected fellow of the estate. Maurits showed an early talent as a draughts- Linnean Society and the Horticultural Society. In 1891– man and received drawing lessons. 1893 he toured the world to collect plants for the firm In 1803 he enlisted in the navy as a cadet. When and gave an account of these travels in A traveller’s in 1805 his uncle, Carel VerHuell (1764–1845) was notes (1896). James Herbert became managing director ordered by Napoleon to bring some Dutch navy ships of James Veitch & Sons in 1898. He prepared Hortus from Duinkerken to Boulogne to reinforce the fleet Veitchii, a sumptuously produced history of the firm. that was to invade Britain, Maurits accompanied When poor health forced him to retire, his uncle Harry his uncle. He behaved valiantly during skirmishes James came out of his retirement to take over. James with the British, and was promoted to the rank of Herbert Veitch finally died of syphilitic paralysis. Lieutenant afterwards. In 1807 H.W. Daendels (1762–1818) was appointed 1892–1894 Governor General of the Dutch Indies by Lodewijk A traveller’s notes. Gardeners’ Chronicle, 3rd series 11 Napoleon, King of Holland, and was taken from (1892(1)): 332, 372, 426, 555, 660, 721, 752; 12 (1892(2)): Tenerife to Batavia on the brig ‘De Vlieg’ under 11, 67, 180, 305, 350, 399, 470, 552, 643, 700, 772; 13 commander Willem Krekel. VerHuell also sailed on (1893(1)): 68, 130, 228, 260, 387, 568; 14 (1893(2)): 40, ‘De Vlieg’, which encountered British forces near the 132, 179, 298, 295, 427, 461, 556, 715; 15 (1894(1)) 38, Brazilian coast and was forced to fight. The ship lost 264, 399, 504, 557, 686, 718, 780; 16 (1884(2)): 10, 64, her masts, but succeeded in reaching Bahia, where the 91, 216, 249, 308, 401, 434, 468, 532, 595–6, 627–8, crew was interned. VerHuell stayed in Bahia for two 658–9, 722, 728. and a half years. In 1810 he was back in the Netherlands, where he was promoted to the rank of Commander of the French

VerHuell, Quirinus Maurits Rudolph | 439 navy (by then Holland had been annexed by France). 1937 After Napoleon’s final defeat in 1813, VerHuell was My jungle trails; a narrative of adventures in the jungles of regarded as a collaborator and was deactivated by Central and South America, and the West Indies, of strange the new regime. In 1815, however, he was admitted Indian tribes, and their curious customs, the flora and fauna as a volunteer on a naval squadron sent to the Dutch of the countries, and incidents both exciting and humorous. Indies to suppress revolts and assist in taking over the Boston: L.C. Page & Company. Description: viii, 329, government from the British. Due to a miscommunica- front., pl., portraits; 22 cm. tion, Maurits missed his ship and booked a passage on a merchant vessel sailing for Batavia, where he joined Vogel, Julius Rudolph Theodor (1812–1841) his ship, the ‘Admiraal Evertsen’. He served as the first E. Wunschmann, ‘Vogel, Ernst Julius Rudolph officer on board under naval captain Dietz, and had to Theodor’, ADB 40 (1896), p. 125–126, online version. assume command when Dietz suddenly died. On the return voyage, the ‘Admiraal Evertsen’ was wrecked The German botanist Julius Rudolph Theodor near Diego Garçia in the Chagos Archipelago. The Vogel was born in Berlin on 30 July 1812 and died crew was rescued, and later taken to Mauritius, from in Fernando Pó (now Bioko) on 17 December 1841. where they had to find their way home. VerHuell was After completing grammar school in Berlin he studied back in the Netherlads in 1819 and was again deacti- natural science, especially botany, at the University vated. In 1822 he obtained a position at the naval dock- of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in 1837, and yard in Rotterdam thanks to his still influential uncle habilitated for botany a year later and became a Carel, and climbed through several ranks until he was ‘Privatdozent’ (an unsalaried university lecturer). In appointed director in 1842. He retired in 1859 and went 1839 he went to Bonn as a ‘Privatdozent’, and was to live in Arnhem, where he died on 10 May 1860. asked to substitute for the botanist Theodor F.L. Nees VerHuell was also active as a naturalist and illus- von Esenbeck (1787–1837), who had died not long trator of works of natural history. In 1835–1836 he before. Vogel’s scientific work was in the field of plant published the narrative of his journey to the East taxonomy, especially the family Fabaceae. From 1840 Indies (Herinneringen van eene reis naar de Oost-Indiën). he prepared for a scientific journey to West Africa. Encouraged by its success, he later also described his The journey was organized by a British company adventures on ‘De Vlieg’. which intended to colonize the region and thereby put an end to the slave trade. The expedition was to 1835–1836 be transported along the Niger into the interior with Herinneringen van eene reis naar de Oost-Indiën. 2 vols. three steamers. In May 1841 the ships set out from Haarlem: Vincent Loosjes. Description: xxiv, 278; x, Plymouth, in August they had reached the mouth of 247; illus. the Niger. ¶¶ 2008, Herinnering aan een reis naar Oost-Indië. The expedition was a failure because its members fell Reisverslag en aquarellen van Maurits Ver Huell, 1815– prey to fever and they were forced to abort the enter- 1819. Edited by C.F. van Fraassen and P.J. Klapwijk. prise; Vogel, too, returned ill and awaited his recovery Series: Werken uitgegeven door de Linschoten- on Fernando Pó. There his condition improved, but he Vereniging CVII. Zutphen: Walburg Pers. Description: remained weak and died in December of a new attack 701, [1]; many ill. in col. The watercolours made by of dysentery. Verhuell to illustrate his journey are reproduced on p. 497–592. 1849 Journal of the Voyage to the Niger, in J.D. Hooker Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt (1871–1954) (editor), Niger Flora; or, an enumeration of the plants of Entry ‘Verrill, Alpheus Hyatt’ in Who Was Who in Western Tropical Africa, collected by the late Dr. Theodore America, Vol 3:1951–1960 ■ Howgego 2008, p. 859. Vogel, ...with a sketch of the life of Dr. Vogel, p. 22–71. London: Hippolyte Baillière. The American naturalist, photographer, inventor and author Alpheus Hyatt Verrill was born on 23 July 1871 Vogt, Carl Christoph (1817–1895) and died on 14 November 1954. He was the son of E. Krause, ‘Vogt, Karl’, ADB 40 (1896), p. 181–189, Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926), who was the first online version. zoology professor at Yale. He wrote some 115 books on a wide range of subjects, including popular science The German-Swiss zoologist, geologist, politician and and thrillers. He travelled extensively in the West polemicist Carl Christoph Vogt was born in Gießen Indies and all of America. (Hessen) on 5 July 1817, and died in Geneva on 5 May In 1896 he became natural history editor of Webster’s 1895. He studied medicine, first at Gießen, later at International Dictionary. He is credited with the Bern (Switzerland), but never practiced as a physician invention of the autochrome process of natural-colour and turned to zoology instead. Some of his early publi- photography (1902). cations concerned the nervous system of reptiles.

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