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CodePX1132
Dates1912-2005
Person NameRoss; Robert (1912-2005); Botanist; Keeper of Botany
SurnameRoss
ForenamesRobert
EpithetBotanist; Keeper of Botany
ActivityMuseum staff: appointed 2nd class Assistant Keeper in Department of Botany 1 Oct 1936 (to 1950); Served in World War II; senior scientific officer 1946; appointed Principal Scientific Officer 1950 (to 1962); appointed Deputy Keeper of Botany 1962 to 1966; and Keeper of Botany 1966 to 1977; retired Aug 1977.
Diatoms
Obituary in The Leaflet (Botany newsletter) no.04/05 June 2005.

Member, Cambridge Botanical Expedition to West Africa, 1935;
Member, Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952;
Royal Microscopial Society: Fellow 1937, Hon. Librarian 1947-1951, Hon. Editor 1953-1971, Vice President 1959-1960;
Linnean Society: Fellow, 1950, Member of Council 1963-1966;
Institute of Biology: Fellow from 1976;
International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Administer of Finances, 1964-1969;
Editorial Committee, International Code of Botanical Nomenclature: Member 1954-1981;
General Committee for Plant Nomenclature: Member 1964-1969, Chairman 1969-1981;
British Phycological Society: President 1969-1971;
Quekett Microscopical Club: President 1974-1976;
International Society for Diatom Research: Vice President 1992-1994, President 1994-1996
Catalogue
RefNoTitle
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3Robert Ross Expedition Photographs and Slides, Ruwenzori, Uganda
DF/BOT/406/91Diary of the Ruwenzori Expedition by Robert Ross
DF/BOT/440/15/1Identification lists for the Osmaston/Ross Ruwenzori Expedition by Robert Ross and H A Osmaston
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/2Photographs from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952-1953, packet 2
DF/BOT/440/15Ross, Robert: Papers
DF/BOT/440/15/3Notes and typescript re Ericaceae account for Flora Zambesiaca,
DF/BOT/404/4/5/1Robert Ross Expedition Diaries, Ruwenzori, Uganda
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/5Photographs from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952-1953, packet 5
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/1Photographs from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition 'Africa 1953, Nairobi to Tinja'
DF/BOT/422/1/7Artwork, drawings and photographs of diatoms
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/9Photographs from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952-1953, packet 9
DF/BOT/422/1/8Department administration documents
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/4Photographs from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952-1953, packet 4
DF/BOT/422/1/1Correspondence of Robert Ross
DF/BOT/422/1/3Societies, affiliations and symposiums
DF/BOT/440/15/2Correspondence with F Demaret, Jardin Botanique de L'Etat and Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Uppsala; with notes re genus Philippia for delimitation of African genera,
DF/BOT/407/25Staff file: Robert Ross
DF/BOT/422/1/8/1Natural History Museum Staff Association
DF/PH/3/13/5/9Opening ceremony for fossil mammal gallery: Guests
DF/BOT/416/1/64Papers of Robert Ross: Correspondence concerning outstanding loans
DF/BOT/404/4/2Ross, Robert: Correspondence and personal diary regarding East Africa expedition
DF/BOT/422/1/4Expeditions and Locality Records
DF/BOT/422/1/5/20Ross, Robert: Obituary of Frederick William Mills
DF/BOT/422/1/7/3Ross, Robert: Electron micrographs of diatoms
DF/BOT/422/1/5/13Lecture notes
DF/BOT/422/1/5/18Various botanical notes
DF/BOT/404/4/5/2/1Correspondence between Robert Ross and family from expedition to Ruwenzori
DF/BOT/422/1/5Notes, manuscript drafts, and collection lists
DF/BOT/422/1/5/21Draft letter to Mr Henning on translations from Swedish
DF/PH/2/2/1/44Staff Photograph: Robert Ross, Botany Department
DF/BOT/440/15/4Notes on genus Philippia and Blaeria re Ericaceae account for Flora of West Tropical Africa
DF/BOT/404/4/3Ross, Robert: Correspondence
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/7Negatives from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952-1953, packet 7
DF/BOT/440/15/6Preliminary treatment of Ericaceae for Flora of Tropical East Africa, c1950s, with explanatory note by E G H Oliver (2004)
DF/BOT/422/1/2Subjects
DF/PH/2/2/2/7Staff Group Photograph: Botany Department
DF/PH/7/2/3/2Director and Keepers, Dr John Philip Harding's retirement
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/6Photographs from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952-1953, packet 6
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/3Photographs from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952-1953, packet 3
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/10Photographs from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952-1953, packet 10
DF/BOT/404/4/5/5Robert Ross pre-trip research for Ruwenzori Expedition - newscuttings and notes on Bakonju/Konzo people
DF/BOT/404/4/5/2/2Correspondence between Robert Ross and Henry Osmaston, looking back at Ruwenzori expedition
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/12Slides from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition collection, 1952-1953, mostly specimens or Natural History Museum British Herbarium
DF/BOT/422Diatom Section: Correspondence and Papers
DF/BOT/422/1Ross, Robert: Papers and Correspondence
DF/BOT/440/15/5Notes and correspondence regarding European and African Ericaceae
DF/BOT/413Botany Accessions, Acquisition and Exchange Records
DF/PH/2/2/2/6Staff Group Photograph: Botany Department
DF/PH/2/2/2/9Staff Group Photograph: Botany Department
DF/PH/7/2/3/1Director and Keepers, Dr John Philip Harding's retirement
DF/BOT/404/4/5/3/11Photographs from Robert Ross Ruwenzori Expedition, 1952-1953, packet 11, labelled XII-IX
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