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. 132 journeys so far, 1904 to 1994, 20,575 specimens between them.
51 collectors and expeditions1,895 days in the field379,924 km between stops17,232 photographed specimens
132 journeys match
H.A. Miller
5 islands · May – Jun 1965
H.A. Miller across 5 islands, May – June 196595 specimens · 5 stops · 20 days · 2,591 km
Romero
Luzon · 6–17 Sep 1991
Romero in Luzon, 6–17 September 199185 specimens · 8 stops · 12 days
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
E.J. Reynoso
Bohol and Cebu · Mar – Apr 1993
E.J. Reynoso in Bohol and Cebu, March – April 1993157 specimens · 2 stops · 14 days · 77 km
E.J. Reynoso
3 islands of the Philippines · May – Jun 1992
E.J. Reynoso in Sibuyan, Luzon and Mindanao, May – June 199273 specimens · 7 stops · 32 days · 1,568 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
4 islands · Dec 1957 – Jan 1958
F. Raymond Fosberg across 4 islands, December 1957 – January 195861 specimens · 17 stops · 32 days · 36,429 km
Garcia
Visayas and Visayan · Oct – Nov 1992
Garcia in Visayas and Visayan, October – November 199274 specimens · 8 stops · 33 days
E.C. Sagcal Jr.
Visayas and Visayan · Oct – Nov 1992
E.C. Sagcal Jr. in Visayas and Visayan, October – November 199274 specimens · 8 stops · 33 days
E.J. Reynoso
Palawan and Luzon · Jan – Feb 1991
E.J. Reynoso in Palawan and Luzon, January – February 199166 specimens · 10 stops · 15 days · 1,346 km
E.J. Reynoso
Luzon and Northern Luzon · Jul – Aug 1992
E.J. Reynoso in Luzon and Northern Luzon, July – August 199259 specimens · 14 stops · 17 days
Seymour H. Sohmer
6 islands of the Philippines · Oct – Nov 1985
Seymour H. Sohmer across 6 islands of the Philippines, October – November 198579 specimens · 6 stops · 12 days · 286 km
G.C.G. Argent
3 islands of the Philippines · Feb – Mar 1992
G.C.G. Argent in Luzon, Palawan and Mindanao, February – March 199269 specimens · 7 stops · 27 days · 1,326 km
Romero
Leyte · Feb – Mar 1993
Romero in Leyte, February – March 199366 specimens · 7 stops · 34 days
Seymour H. Sohmer
Sibuyan · 12–21 May 1987
Seymour H. Sohmer in Sibuyan, 12–21 May 198785 specimens · 5 stops · 10 days
G.T. Kraft
Luzon · 1–27 Mar 1968
G.T. Kraft in Luzon, 1–27 March 196858 specimens · 10 stops · 27 days
Fernando
Mindanao and Luzon · 3–29 Mar 1992
Fernando in Mindanao and Luzon, 3–29 March 199253 specimens · 9 stops · 27 days · 972 km
E.J. Reynoso
Palawan and Cebu · Jul – Aug 1986
E.J. Reynoso in Palawan and Cebu, July – August 198689 specimens · 3 stops · 27 days · 567 km
D.L. Topping
Luzon · Mar – May 1904
D.L. Topping in Luzon, March – May 190470 specimens · 4 stops · 43 days
Alvarez
Bohol and Cebu · Mar – Apr 1993
Alvarez in Bohol and Cebu, March – April 1993125 specimens · 2 stops · 12 days · 77 km
Fuentes
3 islands of the Philippines · Apr – May 1991
Fuentes in Negros, Mindoro and Mindanao, April – May 199154 specimens · 9 stops · 49 days · 689 km
Seymour H. Sohmer
Luzon and Quezon · 9–14 Feb 1985
Seymour H. Sohmer in Luzon and Quezon, 9–14 February 198581 specimens · 5 stops · 6 days
Benjamin C. Stone
4 islands of the Philippines · Nov 1991 – Feb 1992
Benjamin C. Stone across 4 islands of the Philippines, November 1991 – February 199243 specimens · 11 stops · 77 days · 613 km
Garcia
Luzon and Olango · Nov – Dec 1991
Garcia in Luzon and Olango, November – December 199172 specimens · 7 stops · 15 days
E.B. Barbon
Luzon and Olango · Nov – Dec 1991
E.B. Barbon in Luzon and Olango, November – December 199172 specimens · 7 stops · 15 days
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.