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. 5 journeys so far, 1964 to 1968, 513 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions73 days in the field15,768 km between stops460 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
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
G.A. Santos
4 islands of the Philippines · Feb – Jun 1968
G.A. Santos across 4 islands of the Philippines, February – June 196884 specimens · 23 stops · 117 days · 3,115 km
V.B. Alvarez
9 islands of the Philippines · Dec 1964 – Feb 1965
V.B. Alvarez across 9 islands of the Philippines, December 1964 – February 1965122 specimens · 9 stops · 41 days · 2,185 km
Ernani Meñez
11 islands of the Philippines · Sep – Oct 1967
Ernani Meñez across 11 islands of the Philippines, September – October 196791 specimens · 14 stops · 41 days · 3,373 km
Maxwell S. Doty
6 islands · Dec 1965 – Jan 1966
Maxwell S. Doty across 6 islands, December 1965 – January 196658 specimens · 5 stops · 32 days · 657 km
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date (year, month and day; a bare “1 January” is treated as a missing day) and a named collector is a diary entry. For each collector the days are read in order, each day given the place most of its labels name. The place where a collector spent more than forty percent of their days, and at least sixty of them, is home: days there are left out.
A gap of more than 21 days between collecting days ends one journey and begins the next. A journey must run five to four hundred days, hold at least forty specimens and touch at least two places. Within it, consecutive days inside the same or a neighbouring tenth-of-a-degree cell (about eleven kilometres) are one stop; the stop’s point is the mean of its labels’ coordinates, or the island’s centre when none carry any.
Companions are collectors whose own labels put them in the same cell on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it, feature it or hide it; those words survive every rebuild. Everything else is read off the specimens and rebuilt by harvest.mjs expeditions as the records improve.