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. 13 journeys so far, 1960 to 1969, 1,187 specimens between them.
9 collectors and expeditions220 days in the field148,001 km between stops916 photographed specimens
13 journeys match
H.P. Nooteboom
3 islands · Jan – Mar 1969
H.P. Nooteboom in Borneo, Sabah and Java, January – March 1969194 specimens · 27 stops · 73 days · 38,443 km
Maxwell S. Doty
11 islands · Dec 1964 – Feb 1965
Maxwell S. Doty across 11 islands, December 1964 – February 1965158 specimens · 14 stops · 38 days · 6,438 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
T.K. Newell
9 islands · Aug – Nov 1966
T.K. Newell across 9 islands, August – November 1966116 specimens · 27 stops · 91 days · 12,029 km
Benjamin C. Stone
7 islands · Dec 1967 – Apr 1968
Benjamin C. Stone across 7 islands, December 1967 – April 196895 specimens · 22 stops · 121 days · 1,715 km
Harold St.John
Singapore and Penang · May – Jul 1960
Harold St.John in Singapore and Penang, May – July 196082 specimens · 18 stops · 53 days · 3,081 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
3 islands · Jun – Jul 1963
F. Raymond Fosberg in Borneo, Sarawak and Malaya, June – July 196382 specimens · 12 stops · 20 days
Benjamin C. Stone
6 islands · Jan – Apr 1967
Benjamin C. Stone across 6 islands, January – April 196760 specimens · 16 stops · 68 days · 10,590 km
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Ding Hou
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1966
Ding Hou in Borneo, Sarawak and Pahang, June – September 196641 specimens · 24 stops · 106 days
F. Raymond Fosberg
4 islands · Nov – Dec 1963
F. Raymond Fosberg across 4 islands, November – December 196357 specimens · 9 stops · 20 days
Larry W. Quate
Hawaiʻi Island and Maui · Mar – Apr 1961
Larry W. Quate in Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, March – April 196161 specimens · 14 stops · 43 days · 11,144 km
Benjamin C. Stone
3 islands · Apr – May 1969
Benjamin C. Stone in Kedah, Viti Levu and Malaya, April – May 196949 specimens · 6 stops · 20 days
E. Soepadmo
Selangor and Malaya · 4–20 Apr 1968
E. Soepadmo in Selangor and Malaya, 4–20 April 196847 specimens · 3 stops · 17 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.