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[Kendel]

Thanks, Liam!
@SkovandOfMitaze mentioned using botanical keys recently, which was a word I needed for a thing I was seeking. My many plant books rarely help me figure out what is growing on my property. Because they are not keys. It’s always more interesting when my personal research goals can be useful at work, too!
You are 100% right that the creeping critters need representation, too, particularly spiders and insects. So, thank you for another project idea! We have many books on bugs and other animals at the state library, but I don’t know if they include keys. Even so, the creeping things need representation—of course my work will have to focus on Michigan and/or the Great Lakes region, of which Michigan is a part.
Your bug interest reminded me of the dedication I shared over in Pithy Quotes from the book on non-gilled mushrooms in Michigan:

@Kendel

From The Boletes of Michigan by Alexander H. Smith and Harry D. Thiers

DEDICATION
This work is dedicated to Victor Clare Potter, of Ithaca, Michigan; born May 14, 1920, died January 11, 1964. Victor Potter was a victim of arthritis, but this did not dampen his enthusiasm for natural history. He had special crutches made so that he could carry a collecting basket on one of them, and, so equipped, he made, in the short period of less than fifteen years, a collection of fleshy fungi of appoximately 20,000 specimens, which is the most significant collection in existence from the center part of the Lower Peninsula. Many of them were boletes, including one of the most peculiar species of Leccinum yet described, which now bears his name.
He clearly showed by his own efforts that the amateur naturalist can still make significant contributions to biology. Indeed, the project on the boletes of Michigan has profited significantly from the activities of a number of amateurs in the state.

I’m sure this quote describes many of the interesting people who hang around here.