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. 91 journeys so far, 1920 to 1930, 23,352 specimens between them.
47 collectors and expeditions2,084 days in the field276,889 km between stops14,742 photographed specimens
91 journeys match
Carl Skottsberg
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · 1–30 Sep 1926
Carl Skottsberg in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, 1–30 September 1926187 specimens · 16 stops · 30 days · 459 km
John August Kusche
Kauaʻi · Apr – Jun 1920
John August Kusche in Kauaʻi, April – June 1920360 specimens · 10 stops · 68 days · 63 km
Henry Wiebke
Maui and Oʻahu · Jun – Aug 1927
Henry Wiebke in Maui and Oʻahu, June – August 1927127 specimens · 34 stops · 79 days · 304 km
Walter M. Giffard
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · Jun – Jul 1928
Walter M. Giffard in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, June – July 1928299 specimens · 4 stops · 31 days · 87 km
Harold St.John
Kauaʻi · Mar – Jun 1926
Harold St.John in Kauaʻi, March – June 1926270 specimens · 15 stops · 91 days
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
4 islands of the United States · Jul – Sep 1927
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 4 islands of the United States, July – September 1927243 specimens · 11 stops · 55 days · 849 km
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · Oct 1924 – Jan 1925
Erling Christophersen in Oʻahu, Tutuila and Hawaiʻi Island, October 1924 – January 1925126 specimens · 16 stops · 85 days · 17,725 km
Wm. R. Taylor
8 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1924
Wm. R. Taylor across 8 islands of the United States, June – August 192496 specimens · 41 stops · 70 days
Jackson Harris
Oʻahu · Aug – Oct 1924
Jackson Harris in Oʻahu, August – October 1924110 specimens · 20 stops · 58 days · 226 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
3 islands of the United States · Jun – Sep 1928
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Kauaʻi, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, June – September 1928168 specimens · 15 stops · 81 days · 1,078 km
Otto Herman Swezey
Molokaʻi · May – Sep 1927
Otto Herman Swezey in Molokaʻi, May – September 1927201 specimens · 13 stops · 112 days · 30 km
Otto Herman Swezey
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Aug – Sep 1925
Otto Herman Swezey in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, August – September 1925211 specimens · 21 stops · 38 days · 254 km
Otto Herman Swezey
4 islands of the United States · Jul – Oct 1921
Otto Herman Swezey across 4 islands of the United States, July – October 1921185 specimens · 22 stops · 99 days · 1,113 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
Molokaʻi and Kiritimati · Jul – Aug 1924
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Molokaʻi and Kiritimati, July – August 1924164 specimens · 6 stops · 35 days · 4,362 km
Harold St.John
Kauaʻi · Jun – Aug 1925
Harold St.John in Kauaʻi, June – August 1925162 specimens · 18 stops · 58 days
G.R. Ewart III
Maui and Oʻahu · Dec 1928 – Jan 1929
G.R. Ewart III in Maui and Oʻahu, December 1928 – January 1929136 specimens · 7 stops · 38 days · 247 km
Joseph F. Rock
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1920
Joseph F. Rock across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 1920107 specimens · 12 stops · 42 days · 445 km
Marie Catherine Neal
Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi · 1–30 Aug 1929
Marie Catherine Neal in Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, 1–30 August 1929111 specimens · 12 stops · 30 days · 450 km
Otto Herman Swezey
Hawaiʻi Island · 1–16 Oct 1929
Otto Herman Swezey in Hawaiʻi Island, 1–16 October 1929260 specimens · 5 stops · 16 days · 45 km
Erling Christophersen
8 islands · Jun – Sep 1924
Erling Christophersen across 8 islands, June – September 192481 specimens · 18 stops · 111 days · 15,205 km
H.F. Bergman
Oʻahu and Maui · Dec 1927 – Feb 1928
H.F. Bergman in Oʻahu and Maui, December 1927 – February 192881 specimens · 10 stops · 62 days · 364 km
A.G. Whiting
3 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1929
A.G. Whiting in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, January – March 192969 specimens · 15 stops · 71 days · 366 km
Otto Herman Swezey
Maui and Molokaʻi · Dec 1928 – Feb 1929
Otto Herman Swezey in Maui and Molokaʻi, December 1928 – February 1929130 specimens · 11 stops · 61 days · 104 km
George Campbell Munro
Maui · Oct 1927 – Jan 1928
George Campbell Munro in Maui, October 1927 – January 192875 specimens · 12 stops · 80 days · 186 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.