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. 7 journeys so far, 1956 to 1983, 1,331 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions187 days in the field18,113 km between stops1,254 photographed specimens
7 journeys match
Seymour H. Sohmer
Sri Lanka and Pahang · Sep – Dec 1973
Seymour H. Sohmer in Sri Lanka and Pahang, September – December 1973672 specimens · 28 stops · 94 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
Benjamin C. Stone
4 islands · Apr – May 1973
Benjamin C. Stone across 4 islands, April – May 1973147 specimens · 19 stops · 56 days
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
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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
Seymour H. Sohmer
6 islands · 6–27 Nov 1983
Seymour H. Sohmer across 6 islands, 6–27 November 198368 specimens · 6 stops · 22 days
Benjamin C. Stone
Malaya and Pahang · Apr – May 1976
Benjamin C. Stone in Malaya and Pahang, April – May 197650 specimens · 6 stops · 18 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.