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. 3 journeys so far, 1951 to 1988, 1,079 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions122 days in the field25,488 km between stops527 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
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
Benjamin C. Stone
13 islands · Nov 1955 – Feb 1956
Benjamin C. Stone across 13 islands, November 1955 – February 1956233 specimens · 36 stops · 93 days · 11,844 km
Derral R. Herbst
10 islands · 1–25 Sep 1988
Derral R. Herbst across 10 islands, 1–25 September 1988174 specimens · 13 stops · 25 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.