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To serve as a reminder Looking back at my notebooks now, the information seems fairly sketchy, often abbreviated, and fairly uninformative. The purpose was merely to serve as a reminder for when, that evening, I would write up my notes in a proper field book. James L. Reveal, The Evolution and Fate of Botanical Field Books Mental infrastructure memory