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. 35 journeys so far, 1922 to 1996, 8,641 specimens between them.
31 collectors and expeditions959 days in the field348,811 km between stops8,000 photographed specimens
35 journeys match
Benjamin C. Stone
6 islands · Jan – Apr 1967
Benjamin C. Stone across 6 islands, January – April 196760 specimens · 16 stops · 68 days · 10,590 km
Daud
Borneo and Sarawak · Jul – Oct 1938
Daud in Borneo and Sarawak, July – October 193850 specimens · 23 stops · 84 days
Tachun
Borneo and Sarawak · Jul – Oct 1938
Tachun in Borneo and Sarawak, July – October 193846 specimens · 21 stops · 84 days
J.K. Jarvie
Borneo and Indonesia · Jan – Feb 1995
J.K. Jarvie in Borneo and Indonesia, January – February 199558 specimens · 15 stops · 33 days · 63,156 km
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Ding Hou
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1966
Ding Hou in Borneo, Sarawak and Pahang, June – September 196641 specimens · 24 stops · 106 days
Soetjipto Moeljono
4 islands of Indonesia · Mar – May 1994
Soetjipto Moeljono across 4 islands of Indonesia, March – May 199456 specimens · 9 stops · 62 days · 7,718 km
Seymour H. Sohmer
6 islands · 6–27 Nov 1983
Seymour H. Sohmer across 6 islands, 6–27 November 198368 specimens · 6 stops · 22 days
E. Soepadmo
Borneo and Sabah · 4–13 Apr 1994
E. Soepadmo in Borneo and Sabah, 4–13 April 199458 specimens · 5 stops · 10 days
A. Rachman
Borneo · Oct – Nov 1996
A. Rachman in Borneo, October – November 199643 specimens · 7 stops · 23 days
T. Khalkausar
Borneo and Sabah · 4–13 Apr 1994
T. Khalkausar in Borneo and Sabah, 4–13 April 199445 specimens · 6 stops · 10 days
R. George
Borneo and Sabah · 4–13 Apr 1994
R. George in Borneo and Sabah, 4–13 April 199442 specimens · 6 stops · 10 days
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.