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. 6 journeys so far, 1964 to 1968, 1,160 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions105 days in the field45,567 km between stops968 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
Maxwell S. Doty
32 islands · Jun – Aug 1966
Maxwell S. Doty across 32 islands, June – August 1966360 specimens · 19 stops · 92 days · 24,280 km
L.E. Hair
25 islands · Jun – Aug 1966
L.E. Hair across 25 islands, June – August 1966263 specimens · 10 stops · 73 days · 5,300 km
G.T. Kraft
22 islands of the Philippines · Apr – Jul 1968
G.T. Kraft across 22 islands of the Philippines, April – July 1968166 specimens · 24 stops · 82 days · 3,991 km
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
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
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.