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. 11 journeys so far, 1924 to 1992, 1,742 specimens between them.
10 collectors and expeditions219 days in the field104,599 km between stops1,213 photographed specimens
11 journeys match
C.R. Long
29 islands · Aug – Nov 1964
C.R. Long across 29 islands, August – November 1964467 specimens · 49 stops · 103 days · 19,051 km
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga
8 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1924
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga across 8 islands of the United States, July – August 1924504 specimens · 13 stops · 52 days · 6,915 km
C.R. Long
24 islands · Apr – Jul 1964
C.R. Long across 24 islands, April – July 1964264 specimens · 39 stops · 91 days · 15,404 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
14 islands · Jul – Sep 1938
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 14 islands, July – September 1938131 specimens · 17 stops · 49 days · 11,700 km
station
17 islands · Aug – Dec 1956
station, August – December 195676 specimens · 33 stops · 130 days · 25,742 km
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35
12 islands · Aug – Sep 1956
V Hugh M. Smith cruise 35, August – September 195650 specimens · 25 stops · 60 days · 13,190 km
Maxwell S. Doty
3 islands of the United States · Dec 1959 – Jan 1960
Maxwell S. Doty in Hawaiʻi Island, Palmyra Atoll and Oʻahu, December 1959 – January 196046 specimens · 9 stops · 24 days · 3,977 km
Donald Mitchell
5 islands of the United States · 1–28 Jun 1935
Donald Mitchell across 5 islands of the United States, 1–28 June 193560 specimens · 5 stops · 28 days · 6,857 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands · Feb – Apr 1992
Derral R. Herbst in Palmyra Atoll, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, February – April 199247 specimens · 6 stops · 41 days · 1,763 km
E.Y. Dawson
Palmyra Atoll · 1–20 Oct 1958
E.Y. Dawson in Palmyra Atoll, 1–20 October 195853 specimens · 5 stops · 20 days
Ernani Meñez
Palmyra Atoll · Dec 1959 – Jan 1960
Ernani Meñez in Palmyra Atoll, December 1959 – January 196044 specimens · 3 stops · 6 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.