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, 1897 to 1900, 209 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions81 days in the field2,500 km between stops170 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
J.E.R. Tilden
3 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1900
J.E.R. Tilden in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, May – July 1900103 specimens · 18 stops · 90 days · 2,500 km
J.E.R. Tilden
4 islands · May – Aug 1898
J.E.R. Tilden across 4 islands, May – August 189866 specimens · 25 stops · 70 days
J.E.R. Tilden
the United States and Canada · Jun – Aug 1897
J.E.R. Tilden in the United States and Canada, June – August 189740 specimens · 15 stops · 49 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.