James Ross

"There are few of those who have been privileged to watch the progress of photography from its earliest dawn as a profession down to its present state as an institution in every civilised quarter of the globe, who are not more or less acquainted with the name "Ross & Thomson" and more recently "Ross & Pringle".

Mr Ross, who had the advantage of being trained as an artist was one of the fortunate few who, having taken up the new art enthusiastically, soon adopted it as a profession, and he is one of the still fewer whose career as a professional photographer has been in every way an unqualified and unbroken success.

He had a high appreciation of and intense love of art, and in his daily work seemed ever striving after an ideal perfection.  ... as a result of much well spent leisure, he produced many exquisitely-beautiful gems that found their way all over the world, and many of which were from time to time reproduced as engravings in various illustrated periodicals."

[British Journal of Photography -  17 December 1878, p.617]