Journeys
The expeditions, reassembled
Every dated label is a diary entry. Read a collector’s labels in order and the voyage comes back: the islands in sequence, the days at each, the specimens from every stop. 70 journeys so far, 1903 to 2011, 14,503 specimens between them.
49 collectors and expeditions1,791 days in the field477,700 km between stops8,940 photographed specimens
70 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 19342,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km
Leonard J. Brass
13 islands · Jul 1932 – Jan 1933
Leonard J. Brass across 13 islands, July 1932 – January 1933816 specimens · 69 stops · 206 days · 10,057 km
Maxwell S. Doty
16 islands · Aug – Dec 1971
Maxwell S. Doty across 16 islands, August – December 1971737 specimens · 34 stops · 101 days · 25,154 km
Grady L. Webster
10 islands · Jun – Sep 1968
Grady L. Webster across 10 islands, June – September 1968510 specimens · 60 stops · 111 days · 38,525 km
Harold St.John
4 islands · Oct 1950 – Feb 1951
Harold St.John across 4 islands, October 1950 – February 1951459 specimens · 38 stops · 97 days · 7,479 km
C.R. Long
29 islands · Aug – Nov 1964
C.R. Long across 29 islands, August – November 1964467 specimens · 49 stops · 103 days · 19,051 km
M.M. Fleischer
13 islands · Feb – Jun 1903
M.M. Fleischer across 13 islands, February – June 1903411 specimens · 33 stops · 113 days · 52,279 km
Johnson Randall
20 islands · Aug – Nov 1987
Johnson Randall across 20 islands, August – November 1987700 specimens · 51 stops · 87 days · 9,036 km
Harold St.John
11 islands · Oct 1957 – Feb 1958
Harold St.John across 11 islands, October 1957 – February 1958325 specimens · 61 stops · 125 days · 23,583 km
Leonard J. Brass
5 islands · Jan – May 1932
Leonard J. Brass across 5 islands, January – May 1932291 specimens · 44 stops · 120 days · 1,876 km
Harold St.John
17 islands · Jun 1961 – Jan 1962
Harold St.John across 17 islands, June 1961 – January 1962294 specimens · 62 stops · 214 days · 4,975 km
Johnson Randall
10 islands · Jan – Apr 1973
Johnson Randall across 10 islands, January – April 1973499 specimens · 49 stops · 110 days · 10,184 km
Richard Hildreth
6 islands · Jul – Sep 1968
Richard Hildreth across 6 islands, July – September 1968322 specimens · 44 stops · 75 days · 8,666 km
Robert H. Snider
14 islands · Sep 1964 – Jan 1965
Robert H. Snider across 14 islands, September 1964 – January 1965519 specimens · 28 stops · 139 days · 19,940 km
Benjamin C. Stone
7 islands · Mar – Sep 1971
Benjamin C. Stone across 7 islands, March – September 1971236 specimens · 43 stops · 182 days · 10,793 km
H.U. Stauffer
10 islands · Dec 1963 – Apr 1964
H.U. Stauffer across 10 islands, December 1963 – April 1964165 specimens · 43 stops · 140 days · 17,939 km
C.E. Hubbard
4 islands of Australia · Apr 1930 – Jan 1931
C.E. Hubbard across 4 islands of Australia, April 1930 – January 1931122 specimens · 50 stops · 275 days
Grady L. Webster
6 islands · Aug – Dec 1973
Grady L. Webster across 6 islands, August – December 1973137 specimens · 44 stops · 125 days · 9,925 km
John August Kusche
Kauaʻi · Apr – Jun 1920
John August Kusche in Kauaʻi, April – June 1920360 specimens · 10 stops · 68 days · 63 km
Heinar Streimann
Australia · Jul – Nov 1978
Heinar Streimann in Australia, July – November 1978124 specimens · 23 stops · 131 days · 517 km
Benjamin C. Stone
5 islands · Jul – Sep 1981
Benjamin C. Stone across 5 islands, July – September 1981220 specimens · 21 stops · 49 days · 9,878 km
van Balgooy
South Island and Australia · Jan – Feb 1983
van Balgooy in South Island and Australia, January – February 1983166 specimens · 13 stops · 39 days
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
7 islands · Aug – Sep 1923
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 7 islands, August – September 1923171 specimens · 15 stops · 36 days · 5,391 km
A. Meebold
4 islands · Oct – Dec 1929
A. Meebold across 4 islands, October – December 1929163 specimens · 9 stops · 73 days · 9,986 km
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date and a known collector is a diary entry. The days are read in order; a gap of more than three weeks ends one journey and starts the next. Days spent where a collector lived most of their life are home, not travel, and are left out.
A journey needs at least five days, forty specimens and two places. Within it, a run of days spent within about ten kilometres is one stop; the stop’s point is the middle of the labels that carry coordinates, or the island’s centre when none do.
Companions are the people whose own labels put them in the same place on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it and feature it; everything else here is read straight off the specimens, and is rebuilt as the records improve.