Ross, Herbert Holdsworth

Herbert Ross was born in 1908 at Leeds, England, educated in British Columbia, Canada, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1933. Ross began work with the Illinois Natural History Survey in 1927 and was named head of the survey and identification section in 1935. He also held the rank of professor of entomology at the University of Illinois. Ross retired from the University of Illinois in 1969 but then worked for the University of Georgia until 1976. Herbert Ross was an authority on caddisflies (Trichoptera) and published over 200 technical publications, as well as several books. He is best known for a popular introductory text, “A textbook of entomology” (1948 and followed by several editions), but also authored “Understanding evolution” (1966), “Evolution and classification of the mountain caddisflies” (1956), and “Synthesis of evolutionary theory” (1962). Herbert Ross died November 2, 1978, at Athens, Georgia.