Ross H. Arnett (1919–1999)

The late Ross H. Arnett, Jr., Ph.D. (Cornell University) was a research insect taxonomist, research associate of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods, adjunct professor of entomology at the University of Florida, and a cooperating scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Formerly a show more U.S.D.A. taxonomic entomologist at the Smithsonian Institution, and for many years a professor of entomology at Purdue University and elsewhere, he was also a noted freelance writer of books on natural history subjects show less