> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 820](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333959) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9998-1) LSID 9998-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721839) QID Q721839 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Squier, Ephraim George (1821-1888), American archeologist, ethnologist, diplomat and editor; journal editor at Albany, Hartford and Chilicothe 1841-1848; chargé d'affaires to the Central American republics 1849, U.S. commissioner in Peru 1863-1865; consul-general of Honduras in New York 1868. **Abbreviated name**: *Squier* \[standard form in IPNI: *Squier*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. – Mss. Bibl. nac. Peru; diplomatic reports and letters in Natl. Arch. U.S. #### Bibliography and biography BM 5: 1996; DAB 17: 488-489; Herder p. 60; Jackson p. 209; ME 1: 231; PH 567; PR 8886; Rehder 3: 234; SIA 95 Tucker 1: 665, 3: 291-292. #### Biofile - Anon., Amer. Naturalist 22: 568. 1888 (obit., note); Brit. Mus. gen. cat. print. books 228: 14-17. 1964; Natl. Cycl. Amer. Biogr. 4: 79. 1893; New York Times 18 Apr 1888; Who was who Amer., Hist. vol. 572. 1967. - Brown, J.H., ed., Lamb's biogr. dict. U.S. 7: 172. 1903. - Kunitz, S.J. & H. Haycratt, American authors 1600-1900. 709. s.d. - Nunez, E., Américas 13(4): 3-7. 1961 (archeol. work). - Lindsey, D., Amer. Hist. ill. 15(4): 30-35. 1980 (portr., archeol. work). - Schmid, R. & M.J., *in* J. Arditti, ed., Orchid biology 1: 29, 35, 36, 44. 1977. - Valderrama, L., Hisp. Amer. hist. Rev. 36(3): 338-341. 1956 (Squier mss. in Bibl. nac. Peru). - Weberbauer, A., Pflanzenwelt peruan. Anden 15. 1911. - Wilson, J.G. & J. Fiske, eds., Appleton's Cycl. Amer. biogr. 5: 641. 1888. - Zittel, K.A. von, Gesch. Geol. Paläont. 837. 1899. ### Publications ##### n.12.720. Tropical fibres **Title** *Tropical fibres*: their production and economic extraction... New York (Scribner & Co.,...) 1861. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Trop. fibr.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1861, p. \[1\]-64, *pl. 1-16* (col. or uncol. liths.). *Copies*: HH, MO, USDA. *London ed*.: 1863, 64 p., *16 pl*., n.v. *Ref*.: Seemann, B., J. Bot. 1: 189. 1863 ("whatever success Mr Squier may have achieved in the field of ethnology, he has made a serious mistake in trying his hands at the subject of tropical fibres... series of blunders...).