> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 902](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33190373) of TL-2 Vol. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/8612-1) LSID 8612-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7349392) QID Q7349392 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Ross, Robert (1912-x), British (English) botanist (diatomologist, nomenclaturist), educated at St. Paul's School, London and St. John's College, Cambridge, M.S. Cambridge 1934; on the Cambridge Botanical Expedition to West Africa 1935; with the British Museum (Natural History), Botany Dept., from 1936, in charge of Diatomaceae; deputy keeper Bot. Dept. 1962; keeper 1966; now retired; member of the editorial Committee for the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature 1954-1978. **Abbreviated name**: *R. Ross* \[standard form in IPNI: *R.Ross*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]]. – Duplicates e.g. at [[Collection BR|BR]], [[Collection ENT|ENT]], [[Collection FH|FH]], [[Collection LD|LD]]. #### Bibliography and biography BFM see no. 2344; Bossert p. 339; IH 1 (ed. 1): 57, (ed. 2): 74, (ed. 3): 93, 94, (ed. 4): 102, (ed. 5): 107, (ed. 6): 155, (ed. 7): 158; TL-2/66; Zander ed. 11, p. 808 (b. 14 Aug 1912). #### Biofile - Anon., Taxon 1: 99. 1952 (on Ruwenzori Exp. 1952).; The NIH Record 15(8): 6. 1963 (portr.). - Fryxell, G.A., Nova Hedwigia Beih. 35: 363. 1975 (diatom coll.). - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb. 76. 1957 (British herb., 3000 spec., at BM). - Rollins, R.C., Taxon 5: 2, 3. 1956 (in group portraits). - Stearn, W.T., Nat. Hist. Mus. S. Kensington 311, 313. 1981. - VanLandingham, S.L., Cat. diat. 4: 2366. 1971, 6: 3586. 1978, 7: 4423-4224. 1978. - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 2: 176, 181. 1936, 3: 164, 165. 1937. #### Eponymy *Rossiella* T.V. Desikachary et C.L. Maheshwari (1958).