Presumably related to the "extended specimen network" concept -- a museum specimen lot is a lot more than just the specimen itself.
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/70/1/23/5637849
--Alan Kabat

    On Friday, January 5, 2024 at 09:45:22 AM EST, pete netmarkinc.com <[log in to unmask]> wrote:  
 
 I don't know anything about Karl Squires or  “the socially-extended specimen.” I would like to know what  the concept of “the socially-extended specimen" isFrom: Conchologists List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Callomon,Paul <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [CONCH-L] FW: Karl Squires 
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 ofLiguus and are using him as a test case for the concept of “the socially-extended specimen.”

 



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