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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. 53 journeys so far, 1910 to 2003, 19,870 specimens between them.

27 collectors and expeditions1,405 days in the field135,569 km between stops14,749 photographed specimens

Laurence H. MacDaniels

12 islands · Oct 1926 – Jul 1927

Laurence H. MacDaniels across 12 islands, October 1926 – July 1927

2,144 specimens · 105 stops · 274 days · 40,135 km

Charles N. Forbes

5 islands of the United States · Jun – Dec 1917

Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, June – December 1917

1,777 specimens · 29 stops · 163 days · 2,815 km

Charles N. Forbes

3 islands of the United States · Mar – Jul 1920

Charles N. Forbes in Maui, Oʻahu and Lānaʻi, March – July 1920

1,158 specimens · 58 stops · 128 days · 1,111 km

Charles N. Forbes

6 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1915

Charles N. Forbes across 6 islands of the United States, May – July 1915

1,032 specimens · 49 stops · 79 days · 992 km

Otto Degener

5 islands of the United States · Jan – Aug 1928

Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, January – August 1928

748 specimens · 74 stops · 209 days · 1,716 km

Charles N. Forbes

6 islands of the United States · Jun – Sep 1919

Charles N. Forbes across 6 islands of the United States, June – September 1919

1,048 specimens · 28 stops · 88 days · 422 km

Carl Skottsberg

6 islands of the United States · Jun – Oct 1938

Carl Skottsberg across 6 islands of the United States, June – October 1938

776 specimens · 47 stops · 106 days · 2,822 km

Lucy May Cranwell

6 islands of the United States · May – Oct 1938

Lucy May Cranwell across 6 islands of the United States, May – October 1938

734 specimens · 51 stops · 146 days · 3,245 km

Otto Degener

5 islands of the United States · Mar – Aug 1926

Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, March – August 1926

607 specimens · 71 stops · 177 days · 3,068 km

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.

Maui and Oʻahu · Feb – Jul 1920

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Maui and Oʻahu, February – July 1920

658 specimens · 47 stops · 176 days · 1,222 km

Charles N. Forbes

3 islands of the United States · Feb – Jun 1910

Charles N. Forbes in Maui, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, February – June 1910

446 specimens · 29 stops · 120 days · 1,746 km

Charles N. Forbes

5 islands of the United States · Sep – Dec 1916

Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, September – December 1916

451 specimens · 23 stops · 106 days · 1,301 km

Charles N. Forbes

5 islands of the United States · Jan – Jun 1912

Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, January – June 1912

459 specimens · 19 stops · 151 days · 981 km

Charles N. Forbes

4 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1912

Charles N. Forbes across 4 islands of the United States, June – August 1912

567 specimens · 12 stops · 44 days · 287 km

Harold St.John

Maui and Oʻahu · Aug – Nov 1945

Harold St.John in Maui and Oʻahu, August – November 1945

369 specimens · 21 stops · 107 days · 649 km

Elwood Curtin Zimmerman

Kauaʻi and Maui · Jun – Aug 1937

Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Kauaʻi and Maui, June – August 1937

575 specimens · 25 stops · 78 days · 481 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

3 islands · Jul – Aug 1946

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Chichi-Jima, July – August 1946

326 specimens · 23 stops · 54 days · 465 km

Clarence H. Cooke Jr.

4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1913

Clarence H. Cooke Jr. across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 1913

422 specimens · 10 stops · 45 days · 815 km

A.L.M. Mitchell

Maui and Oʻahu · Jul – Sep 1945

A.L.M. Mitchell in Maui and Oʻahu, July – September 1945

333 specimens · 17 stops · 63 days · 423 km

Charles N. Forbes

Maui and Oʻahu · Nov – Dec 1919

Charles N. Forbes in Maui and Oʻahu, November – December 1919

310 specimens · 20 stops · 39 days · 614 km

Edward Yataro Hosaka

4 islands · Jun – Sep 1936

Edward Yataro Hosaka across 4 islands, June – September 1936

232 specimens · 37 stops · 84 days · 4 km

Charles N. Forbes

5 islands of the United States · Feb – Apr 1913

Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, February – April 1913

309 specimens · 8 stops · 60 days · 556 km

F.G. Smith

4 islands of the United States · Jan – May 1929

F.G. Smith across 4 islands of the United States, January – May 1929

185 specimens · 19 stops · 110 days · 1,335 km

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.

Oʻahu and Maui · Dec 1928 – Feb 1929

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Oʻahu and Maui, December 1928 – February 1929

244 specimens · 12 stops · 88 days · 650 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.