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. 3 journeys so far, 1903 to 1910, 479 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions47 days in the field2,068 km between stops319 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
Kauaʻi · Oct – Nov 1903
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Kauaʻi, October – November 1903355 specimens · 15 stops · 39 days · 688 km
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu and Kauaʻi · Nov 1909 – Jan 1910
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, November 1909 – January 191061 specimens · 15 stops · 61 days · 1,270 km
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C.S. Dole
Kauaʻi · 1–19 Jul 1909
C.S. Dole in Kauaʻi, 1–19 July 190963 specimens · 3 stops · 19 days · 110 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.