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, 1957 to 1993, 1,659 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions158 days in the field67,250 km between stops397 photographed specimens
4 journeys match
Benjamin C. Stone
20 islands · Sep 1957 – Feb 1958
Benjamin C. Stone across 20 islands, September 1957 – February 1958507 specimens · 64 stops · 154 days · 21,480 km
Johnson Randall
12 islands · Jun – Sep 1973
Johnson Randall across 12 islands, June – September 1973770 specimens · 45 stops · 83 days · 15,630 km
Johnson Randall
20 islands · Aug – Dec 1993
Johnson Randall across 20 islands, August – December 1993214 specimens · 31 stops · 114 days · 29,910 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands · Jan – Feb 1991
Derral R. Herbst in Hawaiʻi Island, Mbanika and Oʻahu, January – February 1991168 specimens · 6 stops · 29 days · 230 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.