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. 21 journeys so far, 1926 to 2002, 11,377 specimens between them.
17 collectors and expeditions982 days in the field521,604 km between stops6,971 photographed specimens
21 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
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
21 islands · Feb – Oct 1934
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 21 islands, February – October 19341,714 specimens · 56 stops · 248 days · 12,587 km
Johnson Randall
25 islands · Mar – Dec 1968
Johnson Randall across 25 islands, March – December 19681,676 specimens · 99 stops · 261 days · 106,577 km
Harold St.John
7 islands · Sep 1932 – Jan 1933
Harold St.John across 7 islands, September 1932 – January 1933929 specimens · 23 stops · 113 days · 8,847 km
Harold St.John
5 islands · Sep 1930 – May 1931
Harold St.John across 5 islands, September 1930 – May 1931545 specimens · 46 stops · 258 days · 10,194 km
Martin L. Grant
3 islands · Jul – Oct 1934
Martin L. Grant in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Moorea, July – October 1934572 specimens · 31 stops · 121 days · 9,586 km
Grady L. Webster
10 islands · Jun – Sep 1968
Grady L. Webster across 10 islands, June – September 1968510 specimens · 60 stops · 111 days · 38,525 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
6 islands · May – Jul 1982
F. Raymond Fosberg across 6 islands, May – July 1982691 specimens · 46 stops · 88 days · 10,015 km
Harold St.John
3 islands · Feb – Jul 1933
Harold St.John in Oʻahu, Molokaʻi and Mangareva, February – July 1933379 specimens · 23 stops · 151 days · 11,376 km
Warren L. Wagner Jr.
7 islands · Jun – Aug 1988
Warren L. Wagner Jr. across 7 islands, June – August 1988536 specimens · 19 stops · 59 days · 10,062 km
Benjamin C. Stone
22 islands · Feb – Aug 1957
Benjamin C. Stone across 22 islands, February – August 1957301 specimens · 47 stops · 169 days · 33,594 km
W. Teraoka
4 islands · Apr 1979 – Mar 1980
W. Teraoka across 4 islands, April 1979 – March 1980183 specimens · 58 stops · 348 days · 23,334 km
M.-H Sachet
6 islands · Jul – Nov 1963
M.-H Sachet across 6 islands, July – November 1963308 specimens · 22 stops · 118 days · 9,873 km
station
16 islands · Jul – Dec 1955
station, July – December 1955196 specimens · 82 stops · 144 days · 48,394 km
Kenneth R. Wood
9 islands · Jun – Nov 1997
Kenneth R. Wood across 9 islands, June – November 1997164 specimens · 33 stops · 139 days · 49,817 km
van Royen
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1967
van Royen in Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Moorea, June – September 1967147 specimens · 11 stops · 80 days · 8,799 km
Charles Walters
Tahiti and Oʻahu · May – Sep 1967
Charles Walters in Tahiti and Oʻahu, May – September 1967110 specimens · 14 stops · 126 days · 8,847 km
station
17 islands · Aug – Dec 1956
station, August – December 195676 specimens · 33 stops · 130 days · 25,742 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
7 islands · May – Jun 1985
F. Raymond Fosberg across 7 islands, May – June 198565 specimens · 10 stops · 35 days · 36,228 km
T.J. Motley
4 islands · Mar – May 2002
T.J. Motley across 4 islands, March – May 200281 specimens · 4 stops · 67 days · 5,882 km
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35
12 islands · Aug – Sep 1956
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35, August – September 195650 specimens · 25 stops · 60 days · 13,190 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.