Conchlers,

Happy New Year from the home of Pilsbry's Ghost!

I'm looking for information on one Karl Squires, a collector of various things (birds' eggs, artifacts and Liguus snails) in the Miami area between 1920 and roughly 1945. We have at least part of his collection of Liguus and are using him as a test case for the concept of "the socially-extended specimen."

This is what I have so far:

From History of Dade County, Florida by Tracy Hollingsworth (1949)
https://archive.org/stream/historyofdadecou00holl/historyofdadecou00holl_djvu.txt
KARL SQUIRES
Karl Squires, civil engineer and discoverer of many of the pre-historic Indian Mounds, and much of the pre-historic past of Southeastern Florida, was born in Medina, N. Y., April 8, 1886, the son of Frank James and Bertha Kate Bowen Squires. Karl attended the Syracuse University, graduating in 1916, and entered the civil engineering field. He came to Miami in 1916, and was for one year in charge of field parties surveying and sectionalizing the northern portion of Dade and Broward counties, for the State. He was engineer in charge of surveying work at Chapman Field, early in 1918, and resigned to enter World War I, seeing service in France.
Returning to Miami, after the war, he worked for the Smithsonian Institute, in the unearthing of specimens of prehistoric human life in this area. In addition to his military record in France, he was a member of the N. Y. State National Guard, and organized the Dade County National Guard Battery of Coast Artillery. He is a graduate of the U. S. Army Engineers' Officers' School at Fort Humhreys, Va., as a captain.
In July 1907, he married Edith Dennis, at Greenport, Long Island, and they have a son, William D. Squires, who married Peggy Chatham, May 20, 1933. Mr. Squires is a member of the Masons, Shrine, Tropical Biological Society, American Society of Military Engineers, Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

Does anyone out there in ConchLand know more? I feel myself succumbing to the Lure of the Liguus...

Paul Callomon
Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates
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