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. 5 journeys so far, 1909 to 2000, 1,021 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions158 days in the field15,054 km between stops269 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
Johnson Randall
20 islands · Aug – Nov 1987
Johnson Randall across 20 islands, August – November 1987700 specimens · 51 stops · 87 days · 9,036 km
J. Elbert
10 islands of Indonesia · Oct 1909 – Mar 1910
J. Elbert across 10 islands of Indonesia, October 1909 – March 1910102 specimens · 26 stops · 142 days
W.J. Lutjeharms
Sumatra and Sumbawa · May – Jul 1936
W.J. Lutjeharms in Sumatra and Sumbawa, May – July 193693 specimens · 26 stops · 82 days
Elsie Overstreet
4 islands · Sep – Nov 1937
Elsie Overstreet across 4 islands, September – November 193780 specimens · 17 stops · 48 days
Johnson Randall
7 islands of Indonesia · Sep – Oct 2000
Johnson Randall across 7 islands of Indonesia, September – October 200046 specimens · 21 stops · 55 days · 6,018 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.