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. 9 journeys so far, 1945 to 1994, 1,965 specimens between them.
9 collectors and expeditions280 days in the field82,411 km between stops1,509 photographed specimens
9 journeys match
Benjamin C. Stone
20 islands · Sep 1957 – Feb 1958
Benjamin C. Stone across 20 islands, September 1957 – February 1958507 specimens · 64 stops · 154 days · 21,480 km
J.A. McDonald
7 islands · Apr – Sep 1994
J.A. McDonald across 7 islands, April – September 1994359 specimens · 33 stops · 154 days · 3,611 km
Harold St.John
11 islands · Oct 1957 – Feb 1958
Harold St.John across 11 islands, October 1957 – February 1958325 specimens · 61 stops · 125 days · 23,583 km
H.O. Sleumer
New Guinea and Oʻahu · Jan – Feb 1962
H.O. Sleumer in New Guinea and Oʻahu, January – February 1962239 specimens · 22 stops · 42 days · 9,681 km
Afrastini Ismail
3 islands · Jun – Aug 1994
Afrastini Ismail in Bali Timur, Bali and Oʻahu, June – August 1994196 specimens · 18 stops · 86 days · 105 km
David F. Grether
9 islands · Oct – Dec 1945
David F. Grether across 9 islands, October – December 194575 specimens · 15 stops · 36 days · 6,774 km
Warren L. Wagner Jr.
9 islands · Oct – Dec 1945
Warren L. Wagner Jr. across 9 islands, October – December 194574 specimens · 15 stops · 36 days · 6,774 km
John L. Earle
18 islands of Indonesia · Oct – Nov 1990
John L. Earle across 18 islands of Indonesia, October – November 1990122 specimens · 13 stops · 26 days · 10,403 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
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.