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. 15 journeys so far, 1950 to 1959, 4,097 specimens between them.
11 collectors and expeditions568 days in the field196,902 km between stops2,752 photographed specimens
15 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
21 islands · Jan – Apr 1950
F. Raymond Fosberg across 21 islands, January – April 1950939 specimens · 61 stops · 96 days · 90,398 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
21 islands · Nov 1951 – Apr 1952
F. Raymond Fosberg across 21 islands, November 1951 – April 1952672 specimens · 57 stops · 145 days · 13,644 km
Sh. Tawada
4 islands of Japan · Jun – Sep 1951
Sh. Tawada across 4 islands of Japan, June – September 1951345 specimens · 53 stops · 113 days
E.H. Walker
4 islands of Japan · Jun – Sep 1951
E.H. Walker across 4 islands of Japan, June – September 1951340 specimens · 53 stops · 113 days
F. Raymond Fosberg
14 islands · Mar – Sep 1956
F. Raymond Fosberg across 14 islands, March – September 1956258 specimens · 81 stops · 177 days · 16,398 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
5 islands · Nov 1953 – Feb 1954
F. Raymond Fosberg across 5 islands, November 1953 – February 1954343 specimens · 50 stops · 83 days · 28,095 km
T. Amano
Okinawa and Iriomote Island · Jun – Aug 1951
T. Amano in Okinawa and Iriomote Island, June – August 1951214 specimens · 31 stops · 63 days
Reid Moran
Okinawa · Feb – Apr 1955
Reid Moran in Okinawa, February – April 1955167 specimens · 32 stops · 75 days · 6,395 km
S. Sonohara
Okinawa and Ie Island · Jul – Aug 1951
S. Sonohara in Okinawa and Ie Island, July – August 1951195 specimens · 20 stops · 32 days
E.Y. Dawson
Okinawa and Luzon · Jan – Apr 1953
E.Y. Dawson in Okinawa and Luzon, January – April 1953138 specimens · 28 stops · 77 days · 1,234 km
Harold St.John
16 islands · Jun – Aug 1956
Harold St.John across 16 islands, June – August 1956140 specimens · 31 stops · 69 days · 26,065 km
Maxwell S. Doty
5 islands · Jun – Oct 1959
Maxwell S. Doty across 5 islands, June – October 1959110 specimens · 16 stops · 108 days · 14,276 km
Maxwell S. Doty
3 islands · 1–28 Aug 1955
Maxwell S. Doty in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Yoron Island, 1–28 August 195594 specimens · 8 stops · 28 days · 397 km
S. Sako
3 islands of Japan · 14–26 Mar 1958
S. Sako in Okinoerabujima, Amami-Oshima and Okinawa, 14–26 March 195875 specimens · 10 stops · 13 days
S. Hatusima
3 islands of Japan · 14–26 Mar 1958
S. Hatusima in Okinoerabujima, Amami-Oshima and Okinawa, 14–26 March 195867 specimens · 10 stops · 13 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.