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, 1936 to 1936, 1,048 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions84 days in the field142,876 km between stops775 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
3 islands · Mar – May 1936
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Guam, Maguao and Tutuila, March – May 1936849 specimens · 17 stops · 38 days · 136,355 km
Otto Herman Swezey
Guam · May – Nov 1936
Otto Herman Swezey in Guam, May – November 1936137 specimens · 45 stops · 207 days
Robert L. Usinger
Oʻahu · Feb – May 1936
Robert L. Usinger in Oʻahu, February – May 193662 specimens · 9 stops · 83 days · 6,521 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.