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Travellers, as we have seen, often kept daily accounts of their journeys.

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'He takes the notebooks out in front of people, he notes their opinions, he talks about his theory to everyone, he won't shut up about it.'

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Indeed, these theoretical notebooks reveal a discursive, non-linear thought process in which Darwin readily rejected any notion that didn't answer the case.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge used Velvet Paper notebooks when exploring the Lake District, and J. M. W. Turner sketched in one.

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And if he hadn't transferred a field notebook's contents in full before he had to go ashore again, he would take a different one, so as not to risk losing what he already had.

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As the voyage progressed, Darwin became more aware of the value of his field notes and he started writing at greater length.

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Every find seemed to pose new questions, while offering new information about the history of the earth and the development of its species.

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When FitzRoy was done, Darwin would rejoin the ship, and they would sail for the next destination.

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Neither man had any idea how consequential the expedition would be.

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Müller-Wille and Charmantier make the key point that Linnaeus did not work in an academic vacuum.

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But he possessed a rare gift for seeing the bigger picture.

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One plant particularly troubled him, causing him to return repeatedly until he had realised why it was so incongruous: it was tobacco, only just arrived from North America.

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He carries on writing, but five days later there's another note: 'I being very sick'.

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As the men signed on back in London, they were recorded in a neat table, where we find a couple of suspects for our authors.

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Aboard the Rook, disaster struck just thirty leagues short of their goal at Amoy.

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'It was 10 foot from the tip of one wing to another,' writes our fascinated guide, before adding: 'I wounded it with small shott.'

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But as they approach the Cape of Good Hope, a new element appears in the journal.

"The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" - Roland Allen