{{short description|American entomologist and photographer (1915–2016)}} {{Infobox scientist | image = Edward Shearman Ross coletando insetos, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (DL-DP-IC-09-001).jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|09|01}} | birth_place = Spokane, Washington, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|3|16|1915|9|1}} | death_place = Mill Valley, California, U.S. | spouse = {{Marriage|Wilda Ross|1942}} | children = 2 | field = Entomologist | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley }} '''Edward Shearman Ross''' (September 1, 1915 – March 16, 2016) was an American entomologist. He majored in entomology at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name=":0">{{cite journal|author=Ross, Edward S.|year=2009|title=Lifelong safari: the story of a 93-year-old peripatetic insect hunter|journal=Annu. Rev. Entomol.|volume=54|issue=1|pages=1–16|issn=0066-4170|pmid=19067627|doi=10.1146/annurev.ento.53.103106.093338}}</ref> Before his PhD was conferred, he worked as curator of insects at the California Academy of Sciences. He wrote many scientific and popular articles about the biology of the insects, most notably on webspinners (Embioptera).
Ross served in the United States Army and was stationed in the Philippines and New Guinea.<ref name=":0" />
Ross was a fellow of the Entomological Society of America since 1947.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.entsoc.org/awards/honors/fellows_list|title=List of ESA Fellows|publisher=Entomological Society of America|accessdate=September 8, 2019}}</ref> He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1954–1955.<ref>{{cite web|title=Edward S. Ross|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/edward-s-ross/}}</ref>
Ross died on March 16, 2016, at his home in Mill Valley at the age of 100.<ref>{{cite news|author=Liberatore, Paul|url=https://www.marinij.com/2016/03/21/edward-ross-of-mill-valley-a-noted-scholar-of-insect-realm-dies-at-100/|title=Edward Ross of Mill Valley, a noted scholar of insect realm, dies at 100|newspaper=Marin Independent Journal|date=March 21, 2016|accessdate=September 8, 2019}}</ref>
== Family == Ross married his wife Wilda, a botanist, in 1942, and had two children with her, Martha and Clark. He had three grandchildren.<ref name=":0" />
== Selected publications == thumb|Edward Shearman Ross during an exhibit on his lifelong work achievements * {{cite book| title=Mosquito Atlas. Part I. The Nearctic Anopheles, important Malaria Vectors of the Americas and Aëdes aegypti, Culex quinquefasciatus | last1=Ross | first1=Edward Shearman | last2=Roberts | first2=H. Radclyffe |author2-link=H. Radclyffe Roberts | date=1943 |publisher=American Entomological Society |ref=none}}<ref name=Matheson>{{cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/395242 |doi=10.1086/395242 |title=''The Mosquito Atlas. Part I. The Nearctic Anopheles, Important Malaria Vectors of the Americas, and Aedes aegypti, Culex quinquefasciatus''. Edward S. Ross , H. Radcliffe Roberts. ''The Mosquito Atlas. Part II. Eighteen Old World Anophelines Important to Malaria''. Edward S. Ross , H. Radclyffe Roberts |date=1946 |last1=Matheson |first1=Robert |author-link=Robert Matheson (entomologist)|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=190–191 |url-access=subscription |ref=none}}</ref> * {{cite book|author=Ross, Edward S.|author-mask=3|author2=Roberts, H. R|title=Mosquito Atlas. Part II. Eighteen Old World Anophelines important to Malaria|year=1943|publisher=American Entomological Society |ref=none}}<ref name=Matheson/> * {{cite journal|author=Ross, Edward S.|author-mask=2|title=Two new Indian Embioptera and the lectotype of Oligotoma borneensis Hagen|journal=Psyche: A Journal of Entomology|volume=50|year=1943|issue=3–4|pages=100–108|doi=10.1155/1943/27010|url=https://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/1943/027010.pdf|doi-access=free |ref=none}} * {{cite journal|author=Ross, Edward S.|author-mask=3|title=A revision of the Embioptera, or web-spinners, of the New World|journal= Proceedings of the United States National Museum|volume=94|issue=3175|pages=401–504|postscript=; followed by plates 18 & 19|year=1944|doi=10.5479/si.00963801.94-3175.401|url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/16426/USNMP-94_3175_1944.pdf |ref=none}} * {{cite book|author=Ross, Edward S.|author-mask=3|title=Insects Close up. A Pictorial Guide for the Photographer and Collector|year=1955|publisher=University of California Press |ref=none}}<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/401084 |doi=10.1086/401084 |title=''Insects Close up. A Pictorial Guide for the Photographer and Collector'' by Edward S. Ross |date=1955 |last1=Glass |first1=Bentley |author-link=H. Bentley Glass|journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology |volume=30 |issue=4 |page=398 |url-access=subscription |ref=none}}</ref> ** {{cite book|title=Insects Close Up|year=2021|author=Ross, Edward Shearman|author-mask=3|publisher=Hassell Street Press|postscript=; pbk reprint; 92 pages|isbn=978-1015203181 |ref=none}} * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bOlOAQAAMAAJ | title=The Ants | last1=Ross | first1=Edward Shearman |author-mask=3| date=1961 |publisher=Columbia Record Club |postscript=; 45 pages |ref=none}} * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y_sEGQAACAAJ | title=Camouflage in Nature | last1=Ross | first1=Edward Shearman |author-mask=3| date=1968 |publisher=Children's Press|postscript=; 63 pages |ref=none}} * {{cite journal|url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.en.15.010170.001105?journalCode=ento | doi=10.1146/annurev.en.15.010170.001105 | title=Biosystematics of the Embioptera | date=1970 | last1=Ross | first1=Edward S. |author-mask=3| journal=Annual Review of Entomology | volume=15 | pages=157–172 | url-access=subscription |ref=none}} * {{cite journal|author=Ross, Edward Shearman|author-mask=3|title=Paedembiidae, a remarkable new family and infraorder of Embiidina from Afghanistan|journal=Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences|year=2006|volume=57|issue=27|pages=785–794|url=https://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/scipubs/pdfs/v57/proccas_v57_n27.pdf |ref=none}}
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