ABSTRACT
This is the first of two chapters that deal, directly or indirectly, with the written discourse of individuals. Here I provide personal and selective accounts of the writing-and its associated activities-of four members of the Herbarium: Bill, Tony, Ed, and Bob (in that order). The general processes whereby these accounts have been written have already been described in chapter 1. However, at this juncture, I probably need to say something more-by way of preview-about the particularities and peculiarities of the methods used to study these writerly lives. In this chapter, the writers are all scientists tout court (whereas those in the next are more tenuously positioned between the applied and the descriptive and between the social sciences and the humanities).
