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, 1904 to 1909, 646 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions66 days in the field
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Journeys with photographed specimens4 journeys match
Walter M. Giffard
the United States · Nov 1907 – May 1908
Walter M. Giffard in the United States, November 1907 – May 1908338 specimens · 17 stops · 175 days
Walter M. Giffard
the United States · Feb – Mar 1909
Walter M. Giffard in the United States, February – March 1909170 specimens · 6 stops · 25 days
Walter M. Giffard
the United States · Dec 1904 – Apr 1905
Walter M. Giffard in the United States, December 1904 – April 190594 specimens · 5 stops · 127 days
Walter M. Giffard
the United States · Sep – Oct 1907
Walter M. Giffard in the United States, September – October 190744 specimens · 7 stops · 49 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.