Mr V.N. Dawson of Cape Town presented a collection of moths to the South African Museum, Cape Town, in 1909. A good number of the species were new to the museum's collections.

Presumably he was Vivian Neville Dawson (1882-1968), son of Arthur James Dawson and his wife Elizabeth Harriet Dawson. He was married in 1918 to Florence May Smith.

List of sources:

Cape of Good Hope. Report of the trustees of the South African Museum, 1909, p. 10.

FamilySearch: Vivian Neville Dawson. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:DYVN-C62M and https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP39-884X

National Automated Archival Information Retrieval System (NAAIRS). http://www.national.archives.gov.za/naairs.htm Documents relating to Vivian Neville Dawson.

Compiled by: C. Plug

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