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. 123 journeys so far, 1899 to 2015, 24,287 specimens between them.
87 collectors and expeditions3,058 days in the field598,846 km between stops19,262 photographed specimens
123 journeys match
E. Soepadmo
Selangor and Malaya · 4–20 Apr 1968
E. Soepadmo in Selangor and Malaya, 4–20 April 196847 specimens · 3 stops · 17 days
A. Sadili
New Guinea · Oct – Nov 1998
A. Sadili in New Guinea, October – November 199843 specimens · 3 stops · 30 days · 1,594 km
S. Thomas
3 islands of Indonesia · 4–22 Apr 1995
S. Thomas in New Guinea, Irian Jaya and Papua, 4–22 April 199551 specimens · 2 stops · 19 days · 24 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.