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. 3 journeys so far, 1930 to 1934, 2,916 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions206 days in the field25,263 km between stops1,851 photographed specimens
3 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
5 islands · Jan – May 1932
Leonard J. Brass across 5 islands, January – May 1932291 specimens · 44 stops · 120 days · 1,876 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
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.