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. 15 journeys so far, 1905 to 1975, 4,318 specimens between them.
10 collectors and expeditions677 days in the field183,095 km between stops2,810 photographed specimens
15 journeys match
Donald Anderson
22 islands · Aug 1949 – Mar 1950
Donald Anderson across 22 islands, August 1949 – March 19501,249 specimens · 70 stops · 211 days · 151,545 km
A.J. Bernatowicz
21 islands · Feb – Sep 1949
A.J. Bernatowicz across 21 islands, February – September 1949593 specimens · 106 stops · 209 days
A.J. Bernatowicz
19 islands · Jan – Aug 1953
A.J. Bernatowicz across 19 islands, January – August 1953249 specimens · 67 stops · 225 days
A.J. Bernatowicz
13 islands of Bermuda · Nov 1950 – Feb 1951
A.J. Bernatowicz across 13 islands of Bermuda, November 1950 – February 1951250 specimens · 56 stops · 97 days
R.S. Cowan
11 islands · Aug – Sep 1946
R.S. Cowan across 11 islands, August – September 1946484 specimens · 17 stops · 41 days · 1,023 km
Wm. R. Taylor
6 islands · Feb – Aug 1946
Wm. R. Taylor across 6 islands, February – August 1946242 specimens · 52 stops · 156 days · 5,901 km
A.J. Bernatowicz
6 islands · Dec 1961 – Apr 1962
A.J. Bernatowicz across 6 islands, December 1961 – April 1962229 specimens · 29 stops · 98 days
A.W. Stewart
17 islands · Jul 1905 – Apr 1906
A.W. Stewart across 17 islands, July 1905 – April 1906215 specimens · 62 stops · 287 days
Harold St.John
15 islands · Dec 1945 – May 1946
Harold St.John across 15 islands, December 1945 – May 1946194 specimens · 23 stops · 147 days · 16,487 km
E.T. Moul
6 islands · Jun – Sep 1951
E.T. Moul across 6 islands, June – September 1951160 specimens · 50 stops · 93 days · 2,573 km
Wm. R. Taylor
14 islands · Feb – May 1949
Wm. R. Taylor across 14 islands, February – May 1949133 specimens · 35 stops · 98 days
A. Hof
8 islands of Bermuda · Jun – Aug 1925
A. Hof across 8 islands of Bermuda, June – August 1925116 specimens · 20 stops · 37 days
A.J. Bernatowicz
4 islands · May – Sep 1950
A.J. Bernatowicz across 4 islands, May – September 195082 specimens · 32 stops · 103 days
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
4 islands · Feb – Mar 1975
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 4 islands, February – March 197565 specimens · 7 stops · 18 days
J. Cooper
7 islands · Jul – Aug 1962
J. Cooper across 7 islands, July – August 196257 specimens · 3 stops · 32 days · 5,566 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.