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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edward_Shearman_Ross > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Edward_Shearman_Ross.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Shearman_Ross > Source revision: 1351703308 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Spokane%2C_Washington), U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|3|16|1915|9|1}} | death_place = [Mill Valley, California](/source/Mill_Valley%2C_California), U.S. | spouse = {{Marriage|Wilda Ross|1942}} | children = 2 | field = [Entomologist](/source/Entomologist) | alma_mater = [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) }} '''Edward Shearman Ross''' (September 1, 1915 – March 16, 2016) was an American [entomologist](/source/entomology). He majored in entomology at the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley).{{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}} Before his PhD was conferred, he worked as curator of insects at the [California Academy of Sciences](/source/California_Academy_of_Sciences). He wrote many scientific and popular articles about the biology of the insects, most notably on webspinners ([Embioptera](/source/Embioptera)). Ross served in the [United States Army](/source/United_States_Army) and was stationed in the Philippines and New Guinea. Ross was a fellow of the [Entomological Society of America](/source/Entomological_Society_of_America) since 1947.{{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}} He was a [Guggenheim Fellow](/source/Guggenheim_Fellow) for the academic year 1954–1955.{{cite web|title=Edward S. Ross|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/edward-s-ross/}} Ross died on March 16, 2016, at his home in Mill Valley at the [age of 100](/source/Centenarian).{{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](/source/Marin_Independent_Journal)|date=March 21, 2016|accessdate=September 8, 2019}} == Family == Ross married his wife Wilda, a botanist, in 1942, and had two children with her, Martha and Clark. He had three grandchildren. == 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}}{{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}} * {{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}} * {{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}}{{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}} ** {{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}} ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ross, Edward Shearman}} Category:American entomologists Category:1915 births Category:People associated with the California Academy of Sciences Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni Category:Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area Category:20th-century American zoologists Category:2016 deaths Category:American men centenarians Category:Fellows of the Entomological Society of America Category:Military personnel from Spokane, Washington Category:Writers from Spokane, Washington {{US-entomologist-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Edward Shearman Ross](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Shearman_Ross) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Shearman_Ross?action=history)). 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