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. 20 journeys so far, 1923 to 1986, 15,652 specimens between them.
15 collectors and expeditions967 days in the field377,622 km between stops11,222 photographed specimens
20 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
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
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
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
7 islands of Fiji · Jul – Oct 1938
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 7 islands of Fiji, July – October 1938697 specimens · 21 stops · 92 days · 3,794 km
Jan Newhouse
11 islands · Jun – Sep 1952
Jan Newhouse across 11 islands, June – September 1952713 specimens · 52 stops · 120 days · 10,694 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
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
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
Harold E. Parks
5 islands · May – Jun 1926
Harold E. Parks across 5 islands, May – June 1926333 specimens · 7 stops · 32 days · 1,859 km
J. Manson Valentine
3 islands of Fiji · Jul 1937 – Jan 1938
J. Manson Valentine in Viti Levu, Taveuni and Ovalau, July 1937 – January 1938131 specimens · 28 stops · 185 days · 23,764 km
Harold St.John
5 islands · Jun – Aug 1947
Harold St.John across 5 islands, June – August 1947162 specimens · 13 stops · 63 days · 23,782 km
Carl Masaru Yoshimoto
4 islands · Jan – Mar 1963
Carl Masaru Yoshimoto across 4 islands, January – March 196387 specimens · 19 stops · 39 days · 7,539 km
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
7 islands · Jun – Aug 1925
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 7 islands, June – August 192552 specimens · 22 stops · 65 days · 10,586 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
7 islands · Jan – Mar 1960
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 7 islands, January – March 196057 specimens · 7 stops · 58 days · 16,910 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
5 islands · Jan – Apr 1986
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 5 islands, January – April 198662 specimens · 10 stops · 77 days · 2,638 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
3 islands · Feb – Apr 1985
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss in Guadalcanal, Viti Levu and Ghizo, February – April 198550 specimens · 4 stops · 50 days · 1,277 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.