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, 1961 to 2000, 245 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions34 days in the field28,960 km between stops55 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens3 journeys match
Maxwell S. Doty
6 islands · Nov 1975 – Mar 1976
Maxwell S. Doty across 6 islands, November 1975 – March 197661 specimens · 13 stops · 131 days · 16,972 km
Jr.William Ellsworth Fisher Jr.
4 islands · Aug – Sep 2000
Jr.William Ellsworth Fisher Jr. across 4 islands, August – September 2000123 specimens · 5 stops · 29 days · 844 km
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
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.