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, 1926 to 1975, 2,523 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions191 days in the field59,183 km between stops2,119 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Laurence H. MacDaniels
12 islands · Oct 1926 – Jul 1927
Laurence H. MacDaniels across 12 islands, October 1926 – July 19272,144 specimens · 105 stops · 274 days · 40,135 km
William J. Hoe
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1966
William J. Hoe in Hawaiʻi Island, Maui and South Island, June – September 1966330 specimens · 50 stops · 79 days · 274 km
R.C. Gardner
6 islands · Jan – Mar 1975
R.C. Gardner across 6 islands, January – March 197549 specimens · 15 stops · 54 days · 18,774 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.