[Taxacom] source of quote about keys

[Jim Croft]

The fact that phrase is quoted strongly suggests it was already in
common use and may indeed be older.   In any case I did not expect it
to go back pre Woodstock pre Moonman...

jim

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Neal Evenhuis<neale at bishopmuseum.org> wrote:
> At 8:07 AM -0400 8/31/09, Steve Marshall wrote:
> Dunno if this is the original source, but a search through Google
> books came up with one in George Edmund's 1976 Mayflies of North
> America:
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=ykkjKuPbE5AC&pg=PA35&dq=keys+are+written+by+biologists+who+don't+need+them+for+those+who+can't+use+them#v=onepage&q=&f=false
>
> Its origin probably predates that too and may use other words so
> searching through Google books or the web may necessitate trying
> different permutations to get the oldest quote.
>
> Have fun,
>
> Neal
>
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