With Descriptions Of Their Color, Size, And Habits, And The Food
And Metamorphosis Of Their Larvae. Alexander Milton Ross, Canadian
physician, abolitionist, author, naturalist, and reformer, was born
on December 23, 1832, in Belleville, Upper Canada (Ontario). A
considerable part of his life was spent in the United States, and
he died in Detroit, Michigan, on October 27, 1897, at the age of 65
years. Ross basically was an idealist, who with intense energy and
dedication promoted causes in which he aligned himself. He
graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York
City in 1855. Ross spent the next ten years promoting the abolition
movement in the northern and southern states of the United States
and in Canada, a devotion that he pursued until the Civil War. Ross
traveled widely and reportedly befriended William Cullen Bryant,
Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Henry Wadswoth Longfellow, and John Greenleaf Whittier. He
served, apparently unofficially, as President Lincoln's informant
on abolition activities in Canada during 1864. On his return to
Canada in 1865, Ross became an avid collector of natural history
specimens.The Butterflies and Moths of Canada... (1873) followed
The Birds of Canada... (1871), but neither of his planned books on
the ferns nor wild flowers were released despite being advertised
as "in press." Ross was elected a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of
London and of the British Association for the Advancement of
Science.--Henry M. Reeves.
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