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, 1,073 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions195 days in the field876 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
A.J. Bernatowicz
21 islands · Feb – Sep 1949
A.J. Bernatowicz across 21 islands, February – September 1949593 specimens · 106 stops · 209 days
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
Maxwell S. Doty
Penikese · Jun – Sep 1947
Maxwell S. Doty in Penikese, June – September 1947123 specimens · 22 stops · 86 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
E.M. Fahey
Penikese · Jul – Sep 1947
E.M. Fahey in Penikese, July – September 194765 specimens · 10 stops · 74 days
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date (year, month and day; a bare “1 January” is treated as a missing day) and a named collector is a diary entry. For each collector the days are read in order, each day given the place most of its labels name. The place where a collector spent more than forty percent of their days, and at least sixty of them, is home: days there are left out.
A gap of more than 21 days between collecting days ends one journey and begins the next. A journey must run five to four hundred days, hold at least forty specimens and touch at least two places. Within it, consecutive days inside the same or a neighbouring tenth-of-a-degree cell (about eleven kilometres) are one stop; the stop’s point is the mean of its labels’ coordinates, or the island’s centre when none carry any.
Companions are collectors whose own labels put them in the same cell on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it, feature it or hide it; those words survive every rebuild. Everything else is read off the specimens and rebuilt by harvest.mjs expeditions as the records improve.