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### 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).