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, 1970 to 1971, 1,387 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions115 days in the field34,022 km between stops1,228 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Maxwell S. Doty
16 islands · Aug – Dec 1971
Maxwell S. Doty across 16 islands, August – December 1971737 specimens · 34 stops · 101 days · 25,154 km
H.P. Nooteboom
3 islands · Mar – May 1970
H.P. Nooteboom in Borneo, Sarawak and Sabah, March – May 1970344 specimens · 34 stops · 62 days · 5,549 km
P. Chai
Borneo and Sarawak · Mar – May 1970
P. Chai in Borneo and Sarawak, March – May 1970306 specimens · 31 stops · 62 days · 3,319 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.