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. 129 journeys so far, 1930 to 1940, 32,997 specimens between them.
61 collectors and expeditions2,281 days in the field303,489 km between stops27,629 photographed specimens
129 journeys match
Gunder E. Olson
Maui · Oct – Dec 1936
Gunder E. Olson in Maui, October – December 193654 specimens · 3 stops · 54 days · 37 km
Amy Suehiro
Oʻahu · May – Jun 1932
Amy Suehiro in Oʻahu, May – June 193277 specimens · 2 stops · 18 days
V.M. Oliveira
Kauaʻi · 24–28 Dec 1933
V.M. Oliveira in Kauaʻi, 24–28 December 193356 specimens · 4 stops · 5 days
Donald Mitchell
5 islands of the United States · 1–28 Jun 1935
Donald Mitchell across 5 islands of the United States, 1–28 June 193560 specimens · 5 stops · 28 days · 6,857 km
K.W. Duker
Oʻahu · Jan – Feb 1933
K.W. Duker in Oʻahu, January – February 193346 specimens · 3 stops · 24 days · 253 km
E.S.C. Handy
Maui and Molokaʻi · 4–18 Jun 1931
E.S.C. Handy in Maui and Molokaʻi, 4–18 June 193150 specimens · 2 stops · 15 days · 108 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Hawaiʻi Island · 23–28 Nov 1932
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Hawaiʻi Island, 23–28 November 193245 specimens · 6 stops · 6 days
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Jan – Feb 1935
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, January – February 193542 specimens · 4 stops · 21 days · 179 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Oʻahu · 11–20 Nov 1934
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Oʻahu, 11–20 November 193463 specimens · 3 stops · 10 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.