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. 4 journeys so far, 1971 to 1978, 938 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions57 days in the field63,597 km between stops663 photographed specimens
4 journeys match
Maxwell S. Doty
16 islands · Aug – Dec 1971
Maxwell S. Doty across 16 islands, August – December 1971737 specimens · 34 stops · 101 days · 25,154 km
Maxwell S. Doty
7 islands · May – Jun 1973
Maxwell S. Doty across 7 islands, May – June 197366 specimens · 9 stops · 60 days · 36,912 km
Maxwell S. Doty
3 islands · Jan – Feb 1972
Maxwell S. Doty in Sitangkai, Tumindao and Taiwan, January – February 197291 specimens · 2 stops · 19 days
Maxwell S. Doty
Borneo and Bohol · 12–25 Oct 1978
Maxwell S. Doty in Borneo and Bohol, 12–25 October 197844 specimens · 5 stops · 14 days · 1,531 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.