If you can figure out where they lived, perhaps we can associate them with a
Shell Club and search the club's back newsletters?
Les
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Thanks Tom,
That must be the person due to the connection with Tom McGinty.
Regards,
Rich
At 11:33 PM 5/12/2021, you wrote:
Rich - Have Henry H. Monroe
Colubraria monroei McGinty, 1962
in "Shellers From the Past and the Present". Presume others you list were
family members.
Regards, Tom
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 7:51 AM worldwide <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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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