Andrew Ross Collection

The collection comprises of correspondence by Andrew Ross.

Andrew Ross was born in 1814, son of Robert Ross and nephew of the Arctic explorer, John Ross. He was educated at Glasgow University and, in 1832, was appointed a bookkeeper in the counting house of a Glasgow firm. Between 1834 and 1835, he assisted John Ross with the preparation of the narrative of the British Northwest Passage Expedition, 1829-1833, and he computed the meteorological tables for the Appendix.

The correspondence is arranged alphabetically.

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Descriptions compiled by N. Boneham, Assistant Archivist with assistance from R. Stancombe and reference to Polar pioneers John Ross and James Clark Ross by Maurice Ross, McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal (1994) SPRI Library Shelf 92[Ross]

Clive Holland Manuscripts in the Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England - a catalogue, Garland Publishing New York and London (1982) ISBN 0824093941.

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