What is the earliest paper outlining the use of the quadrat and transect in ecology? I have a vague reference to "Kings [sic]" "in the 1930s" but no paper reference for the transect. Pound and Clements (1898) are given in relation to the use of quadrat: does anyone have anything earlier? Weaver (1918) certainly believes that Pound and Clements were the originators of the quadrat.