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. 160 journeys so far, 1892 to 1993, 38,185 specimens between them.
53 collectors and expeditions2,872 days in the field286,019 km between stops18,041 photographed specimens
160 journeys match
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu · Jan – May 1917
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu, January – May 1917140 specimens · 12 stops · 95 days · 453 km

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Oʻahu · Sep – Nov 1934
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Oʻahu, September – November 1934152 specimens · 11 stops · 64 days · 289 km


Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Lānaʻi and Oʻahu · Feb – Apr 1961
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Lānaʻi and Oʻahu, February – April 1961141 specimens · 11 stops · 50 days · 429 km
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins
the United States · May – Aug 1895
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins in the United States, May – August 1895306 specimens · 7 stops · 69 days



Owen Bryant
Maui · Feb – Apr 1932
Owen Bryant in Maui, February – April 1932216 specimens · 15 stops · 62 days



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
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
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
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
Edward Yataro Hosaka
Maui and Hawaiʻi Island · Jan – Feb 1937
Edward Yataro Hosaka in Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, January – February 1937114 specimens · 14 stops · 28 days · 447 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
Hawaiʻi Island · Dec 1931 – Jan 1932
Edward Yataro Hosaka in Hawaiʻi Island, December 1931 – January 1932154 specimens · 8 stops · 14 days · 67 km
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



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
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Oʻahu · May – Jun 1932
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Oʻahu, May – June 1932171 specimens · 4 stops · 31 days
Judson Linsley Gressitt
Hawaiʻi Island · Jul – Nov 1971
Judson Linsley Gressitt in Hawaiʻi Island, July – November 1971147 specimens · 14 stops · 131 days · 6,218 km
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

Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
Oʻahu · Sep 1933 – Jan 1934
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss in Oʻahu, September 1933 – January 193493 specimens · 16 stops · 113 days · 124 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
Maui · Mar – May 1967
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss in Maui, March – May 196796 specimens · 17 stops · 62 days · 301 km
John W. Beardsley
Kauaʻi · Jul – Aug 1959
John W. Beardsley in Kauaʻi, July – August 1959172 specimens · 9 stops · 61 days
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
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.
