Charles Sedgwick Minot Quote

The biological bibliographer is like an explorer in a forest - he finds no open way to travel, but must laboriously hunt for the specimens which belong in the same class according to our intellectual systems, and which he must discover as they lie scattered, unclassified, and, all too often, concealed.

Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of, Wood's Hole, Tenth Lecture (pp. 149-150)