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. 62 journeys so far, 1910 to 1920, 18,508 specimens between them.
16 collectors and expeditions1,133 days in the field71,137 km between stops11,631 photographed specimens
62 journeys match
Joseph F. Rock
3 islands of the United States · Apr – Jun 1918
Joseph F. Rock in Molokaʻi, Oʻahu and Maui, April – June 1918200 specimens · 14 stops · 62 days · 167 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Oʻahu and Maui · Sep 1919 – Jan 1920
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Oʻahu and Maui, September 1919 – January 1920201 specimens · 28 stops · 133 days · 556 km
H.A. Pilsbry
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1913
H.A. Pilsbry across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 1913189 specimens · 13 stops · 56 days · 1,191 km
Otto Herman Swezey
Maui · Jul – Nov 1918
Otto Herman Swezey in Maui, July – November 1918300 specimens · 17 stops · 120 days
Walter M. Giffard
Hawaiʻi Island · Jan – Jun 1912
Walter M. Giffard in Hawaiʻi Island, January – June 1912272 specimens · 19 stops · 145 days
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
Molokaʻi · Feb – Mar 1915
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Molokaʻi, February – March 1915275 specimens · 4 stops · 42 days · 51 km
Philip Hunter Timberlake
Maui and Hawaiʻi Island · Jul – Aug 1919
Philip Hunter Timberlake in Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, July – August 1919229 specimens · 22 stops · 51 days · 448 km
Walter M. Giffard
Oʻahu · Jan – Feb 1916
Walter M. Giffard in Oʻahu, January – February 1916478 specimens · 4 stops · 45 days
Otto Herman Swezey
Hawaiʻi Island · Aug – Sep 1919
Otto Herman Swezey in Hawaiʻi Island, August – September 1919289 specimens · 13 stops · 36 days
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu · Jan – May 1917
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu, January – May 1917140 specimens · 12 stops · 95 days · 453 km
Joseph F. Rock
3 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1912
Joseph F. Rock in Hawaiʻi Island, Maui and Oʻahu, January – March 1912133 specimens · 13 stops · 71 days · 136 km
Walter M. Giffard
Hawaiʻi Island · Aug – Sep 1917
Walter M. Giffard in Hawaiʻi Island, August – September 1917328 specimens · 8 stops · 19 days
Joseph F. Rock
3 islands of the United States · Jul – Sep 1918
Joseph F. Rock in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Molokaʻi, July – September 1918168 specimens · 8 stops · 67 days · 409 km
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu · Feb – May 1911
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu, February – May 1911101 specimens · 17 stops · 92 days · 602 km
Joseph F. Rock
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · 1–24 Oct 1911
Joseph F. Rock in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, 1–24 October 1911148 specimens · 5 stops · 24 days
Otto Herman Swezey
4 islands · Apr – Aug 1912
Otto Herman Swezey across 4 islands, April – August 191264 specimens · 22 stops · 124 days · 37,337 km
Walter M. Giffard
Hawaiʻi Island · Oct – Nov 1915
Walter M. Giffard in Hawaiʻi Island, October – November 1915333 specimens · 3 stops · 10 days
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu · Oct – Nov 1914
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu, October – November 1914109 specimens · 5 stops · 37 days
John Colburn Bridwell
Maui and Oʻahu · Aug – Sep 1918
John Colburn Bridwell in Maui and Oʻahu, August – September 1918124 specimens · 6 stops · 32 days · 69 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
Molokaʻi and Kauaʻi · Mar – Apr 1914
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Molokaʻi and Kauaʻi, March – April 1914105 specimens · 4 stops · 25 days · 343 km
Walter M. Giffard
Hawaiʻi Island · Aug – Sep 1919
Walter M. Giffard in Hawaiʻi Island, August – September 1919105 specimens · 14 stops · 44 days
Philip Hunter Timberlake
Oʻahu · Apr – Aug 1916
Philip Hunter Timberlake in Oʻahu, April – August 191690 specimens · 14 stops · 127 days
Charles N. Forbes
3 islands of the United States · Oct 1910 – Jan 1911
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu, Maui and Kauaʻi, October 1910 – January 191148 specimens · 16 stops · 97 days · 1,320 km
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu and Maui · Feb – May 1919
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu and Maui, February – May 191944 specimens · 14 stops · 101 days · 191 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.