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. 5 journeys so far, 1946 to 1951, 490 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions123 days in the field403 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
Maxwell S. Doty
9 islands of the United States · Jun – Sep 1946
Maxwell S. Doty across 9 islands of the United States, June – September 1946216 specimens · 29 stops · 83 days
A.J. Bernatowicz
4 islands · May – Sep 1950
A.J. Bernatowicz across 4 islands, May – September 195082 specimens · 32 stops · 103 days
Maxwell S. Doty
5 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1948
Maxwell S. Doty across 5 islands of the United States, June – August 194874 specimens · 22 stops · 82 days
A.J. Bernatowicz
8 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1951
A.J. Bernatowicz across 8 islands of the United States, June – August 195176 specimens · 23 stops · 60 days
Isabelle Abbott
Marthas Vineyard · Jul – Aug 1947
Isabelle Abbott in Marthas Vineyard, July – August 194742 specimens · 12 stops · 41 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.