I am trying to find out more information about a "family" of shell 
collectors who were active between the 1940's and 1950's with the 
last name of Monroe.  According to a catalog of a shell collection in 
which they are mentioned as the field collectors of many of the 
shells are H.H. Monroe, E.H. Monroe and J.B. Monroe.

They seem to have been contemporaries of John Finlay and Tom McGinty 
among others.  H.H. Monroe collected in Florida; Puerto Rico; Cuba; 
Trinidad and other islands of the West Indies; Caribbean and Pacific 
Panama; Mexico; and also in the Philippines and other locations.

I did not find anyone named Monroe in the American Malacologists 
directory nor by an extensive Web search.  On the Biodiversity 
Heritage Library there is only one mention of H.H. Monroe ... for a 
shell this person collected and cited in a paper on Thala by J. Leal, 
et al. in the Nautilus, but no additional information.

I would be grateful if anyone has a lead on where I can learn more 
about the Monroe's either in print or if you can shed some light on 
who they were, where they were from, etc.

Many thanks,
Rich G.

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