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. 71 journeys so far, 1922 to 1993, 25,631 specimens between them.
50 collectors and expeditions1,986 days in the field838,569 km between stops16,968 photographed specimens
71 journeys match
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
85 islands · Nov 1923 – Nov 1924
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 85 islands, November 1923 – November 19242,392 specimens · 109 stops · 342 days · 30,927 km
Laurence H. MacDaniels
12 islands · Oct 1926 – Jul 1927
Laurence H. MacDaniels across 12 islands, October 1926 – July 19272,144 specimens · 105 stops · 274 days · 40,135 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
12 islands of Fiji · Jun – Oct 1938
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 12 islands of Fiji, June – October 19382,255 specimens · 28 stops · 115 days · 15,460 km
Albert C. Smith
16 islands · Oct 1933 – Jun 1934
Albert C. Smith across 16 islands, October 1933 – June 19342,049 specimens · 73 stops · 248 days · 76,386 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of Fiji · Nov 1940 – Jul 1941
Otto Degener across 5 islands of Fiji, November 1940 – July 19411,263 specimens · 59 stops · 237 days · 15,888 km
Seymour H. Sohmer
Sri Lanka and Oʻahu · Oct – Dec 1975
Seymour H. Sohmer in Sri Lanka and Oʻahu, October – December 1975936 specimens · 26 stops · 44 days
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
22 islands · Jun – Dec 1968
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 22 islands, June – December 1968642 specimens · 45 stops · 180 days · 13,960 km
Albert C. Smith
10 islands · Mar – Aug 1953
Albert C. Smith across 10 islands, March – August 1953869 specimens · 33 stops · 154 days · 15,233 km
Harold St.John
9 islands · Jun – Nov 1938
Harold St.John across 9 islands, June – November 19381,315 specimens · 9 stops · 172 days · 5,917 km
Jan Newhouse
11 islands · Jun – Sep 1952
Jan Newhouse across 11 islands, June – September 1952713 specimens · 52 stops · 120 days · 10,694 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 E. Parks
4 islands · May – Jul 1927
Harold E. Parks across 4 islands, May – July 1927771 specimens · 22 stops · 72 days · 542 km
Harold St.John
7 islands · Apr – Aug 1937
Harold St.John across 7 islands, April – August 1937459 specimens · 38 stops · 139 days · 68,706 km
Albert C. Smith
3 islands of Fiji · Oct – Dec 1947
Albert C. Smith in Vanua Levu, Macuata and Fiji, October – December 1947527 specimens · 16 stops · 69 days
W.R. Sykes
4 islands · Sep – Dec 1965
W.R. Sykes across 4 islands, September – December 1965336 specimens · 55 stops · 98 days · 5,255 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
3 islands of Fiji · 7–26 Jul 1938
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Viti Levu, Ovalau and Fiji, 7–26 July 1938560 specimens · 9 stops · 20 days · 3,777 km
Harold St.John
4 islands · Oct 1936 – Feb 1937
Harold St.John across 4 islands, October 1936 – February 1937352 specimens · 20 stops · 95 days · 23,771 km
John W. Gillespie
3 islands of Fiji · Jan – Mar 1928
John W. Gillespie in Taveuni, Ovalau and Taviuni, January – March 1928492 specimens · 24 stops · 51 days · 4,541 km
Richard Hildreth
6 islands · Jul – Sep 1968
Richard Hildreth across 6 islands, July – September 1968322 specimens · 44 stops · 75 days · 8,666 km
E. Ordonez
5 islands of Fiji · Nov 1940 – Jan 1941
E. Ordonez across 5 islands of Fiji, November 1940 – January 1941444 specimens · 14 stops · 70 days · 10,426 km
Otto Degener
6 islands · Dec 1968 – Feb 1969
Otto Degener across 6 islands, December 1968 – February 1969258 specimens · 29 stops · 52 days · 41,268 km
Judson Linsley Gressitt
3 islands · Jun – Oct 1955
Judson Linsley Gressitt in New Guinea, Vanua Levu and New Britain, June – October 1955229 specimens · 62 stops · 128 days · 3,623 km
Isa Degener
6 islands · Dec 1968 – Feb 1969
Isa Degener across 6 islands, December 1968 – February 1969230 specimens · 30 stops · 52 days · 41,268 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
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.