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. 18 journeys so far, 1940 to 1950, 4,913 specimens between them.
11 collectors and expeditions355 days in the field218,767 km between stops3,918 photographed specimens
18 journeys match


Donald Anderson
22 islands · Aug 1949 – Mar 1950
Donald Anderson across 22 islands, August 1949 – March 19501,249 specimens · 70 stops · 211 days · 151,545 km



Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
4 islands · May – Aug 1940
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 4 islands, May – August 1940616 specimens · 10 stops · 86 days · 181 km
Harold St.John
Maui and Oʻahu · Aug – Nov 1945
Harold St.John in Maui and Oʻahu, August – November 1945369 specimens · 21 stops · 107 days · 649 km



Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
3 islands · Jul – Aug 1946
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Chichi-Jima, July – August 1946326 specimens · 23 stops · 54 days · 465 km
A.L.M. Mitchell
Maui and Oʻahu · Jul – Sep 1945
A.L.M. Mitchell in Maui and Oʻahu, July – September 1945333 specimens · 17 stops · 63 days · 423 km



Donald Anderson
Oʻahu · Feb – Apr 1940
Donald Anderson in Oʻahu, February – April 1940392 specimens · 5 stops · 81 days · 410 km
Donald P. Rogers
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · Oct 1946 – Jan 1947
Donald P. Rogers in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, October 1946 – January 1947224 specimens · 21 stops · 87 days · 818 km

Harold St.John
5 islands · Jun – Aug 1947
Harold St.John across 5 islands, June – August 1947162 specimens · 13 stops · 63 days · 23,782 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
Oʻahu and Molokaʻi · Feb – Apr 1948
F. Raymond Fosberg in Oʻahu and Molokaʻi, February – April 1948132 specimens · 15 stops · 71 days · 524 km



Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Oʻahu · Mar – Apr 1948
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu, March – April 1948164 specimens · 7 stops · 37 days · 934 km



David F. Grether
5 islands · Jul – Aug 1946
David F. Grether across 5 islands, July – August 1946121 specimens · 10 stops · 38 days · 37,731 km



Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
4 islands of the United States · Oct – Dec 1947
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 4 islands of the United States, October – December 1947188 specimens · 15 stops · 40 days · 52 km



Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Oʻahu · Mar – Jun 1946
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu, March – June 1946124 specimens · 6 stops · 65 days · 506 km



Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Oʻahu and Kauaʻi · Jan – Mar 1947
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, January – March 194792 specimens · 7 stops · 70 days · 539 km



Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Maui · Apr – May 1945
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Maui, April – May 1945146 specimens · 7 stops · 15 days · 43 km



Edward Yataro Hosaka
Hawaiʻi Island · 11–19 Jun 1941
Edward Yataro Hosaka in Hawaiʻi Island, 11–19 June 1941127 specimens · 3 stops · 9 days · 165 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Kauaʻi · Jul – Aug 1940
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Kauaʻi, July – August 194074 specimens · 8 stops · 11 days



Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Oʻahu · 9–28 May 1943
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Oʻahu, 9–28 May 194374 specimens · 2 stops · 20 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.
