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. 10 journeys so far, 1951 to 1958, 1,939 specimens between them.
10 collectors and expeditions351 days in the field50,092 km between stops1,819 photographed specimens
10 journeys match
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
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
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.