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. 7 journeys so far, 1958 to 1993, 2,338 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions147 days in the field13,129 km between stops2,008 photographed specimens
7 journeys match
P.S. Moreland
14 islands of the Philippines · Feb – Mar 1973
P.S. Moreland across 14 islands of the Philippines, February – March 1973748 specimens · 18 stops · 47 days · 2,230 km
Maxwell S. Doty
11 islands · Jan – Jul 1958
Maxwell S. Doty across 11 islands, January – July 1958545 specimens · 28 stops · 184 days · 5,161 km
Virgilio Villena
12 islands of the Philippines · Feb – Mar 1973
Virgilio Villena across 12 islands of the Philippines, February – March 1973620 specimens · 18 stops · 47 days · 1,461 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
Fernando
3 islands of the Philippines · Aug – Oct 1993
Fernando in Quezon, Luzon and Quezon Island, August – October 199399 specimens · 14 stops · 62 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
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
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.