Edward Groesbeck Voss (Fig. 1), Professor and Curator Emeritus at the University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and University of Michigan Herbarium, died on February 13, 2012 at his home in Ann Arbor, after a brief illness. He was born on February 22, 1929 in Delaware, Ohio. Ed's abilities were clear early in his life. He attended Woodward High School in Toledo, Ohio. He received the Achievement Award as the outstanding senior in his 1946 high school class, and was laterelected to the Woodward High Hall of Fame. He then graduated with a bachelor's degree with honors from Denison University (1950); his undergraduate honors thesis, On the classification of the Hesperiidae, became a significant paper on Lepidoptera (Voss 1952). He completed his education with a master's in Biology (1951) and a doctoral degree in Botany (1954), both from the University of Michigan working with Rogers McVaugh. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from Denison University in 2003.
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