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. 14 journeys so far, 1960 to 1968, 5,234 specimens between them.
8 collectors and expeditions352 days in the field323,901 km between stops3,505 photographed specimens
14 journeys match
Ernani Meñez
50 islands · Jun – Sep 1960
Ernani Meñez across 50 islands, June – September 19602,317 specimens · 38 stops · 100 days · 40,857 km
M.A. Evans
13 islands · Nov 1965 – May 1966
M.A. Evans across 13 islands, November 1965 – May 1966591 specimens · 63 stops · 208 days · 85,825 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
28 islands · Jun – Sep 1965
F. Raymond Fosberg across 28 islands, June – September 1965606 specimens · 53 stops · 87 days · 32,275 km
H.A. Miller
26 islands · Jun – Aug 1960
H.A. Miller across 26 islands, June – August 1960410 specimens · 37 stops · 90 days · 20,099 km
H.O. Whittier
21 islands · Jun – Aug 1960
H.O. Whittier across 21 islands, June – August 1960310 specimens · 20 stops · 77 days · 1,577 km
Benjamin C. Stone
Guam and Rota · Nov 1961 – Aug 1962
Benjamin C. Stone in Guam and Rota, November 1961 – August 1962147 specimens · 52 stops · 255 days
H.A. Miller
5 islands · Mar – Apr 1965
H.A. Miller across 5 islands, March – April 1965261 specimens · 6 stops · 42 days · 16,828 km
Benjamin C. Stone
11 islands · Dec 1964 – Feb 1965
Benjamin C. Stone across 11 islands, December 1964 – February 1965145 specimens · 14 stops · 51 days · 64,561 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
4 islands · May – Aug 1962
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 4 islands, May – August 196276 specimens · 12 stops · 89 days · 12,838 km
H.A. Miller
5 islands · May – Jun 1965
H.A. Miller across 5 islands, May – June 196595 specimens · 5 stops · 20 days · 2,591 km
Benjamin C. Stone
Guam and Rota · Feb – Jun 1964
Benjamin C. Stone in Guam and Rota, February – June 196451 specimens · 18 stops · 129 days
F. Raymond Fosberg
7 islands · 8–24 Nov 1968
F. Raymond Fosberg across 7 islands, 8–24 November 196877 specimens · 9 stops · 17 days · 40,884 km
M.A. Evans
3 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands · 18–23 Jun 1966
M.A. Evans in Sariguan, Saipan and Sarigan, 18–23 June 196691 specimens · 5 stops · 6 days
J. Cooper
7 islands · Jul – Aug 1962
J. Cooper across 7 islands, July – August 196257 specimens · 3 stops · 32 days · 5,566 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.