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, 1923 to 1989, 6,048 specimens between them.
10 collectors and expeditions507 days in the field148,324 km between stops4,780 photographed specimens
11 journeys match
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
85 islands · Nov 1923 – Nov 1924
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 85 islands, November 1923 – November 19242,392 specimens · 109 stops · 342 days · 30,927 km
Laurence H. MacDaniels
12 islands · Oct 1926 – Jul 1927
Laurence H. MacDaniels across 12 islands, October 1926 – July 19272,144 specimens · 105 stops · 274 days · 40,135 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
4 islands · May – Aug 1940
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 4 islands, May – August 1940616 specimens · 10 stops · 86 days · 181 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
W. Teraoka
4 islands · Apr 1979 – Mar 1980
W. Teraoka across 4 islands, April 1979 – March 1980183 specimens · 58 stops · 348 days · 23,334 km
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · Dec 1931 – Feb 1932
Erling Christophersen in Tutuila, Oʻahu and Upolu, December 1931 – February 1932148 specimens · 8 stops · 47 days · 8,662 km
G.J. Spence
6 islands · Jan – Mar 1977
G.J. Spence across 6 islands, January – March 197788 specimens · 14 stops · 63 days · 10,053 km
W. Teraoka
3 islands · May – Aug 1980
W. Teraoka in Oʻahu, Savaii and Upolu, May – August 198066 specimens · 17 stops · 85 days · 4,343 km
L.D. Whiteaker
3 islands · May – Aug 1980
L.D. Whiteaker in Oʻahu, Savaii and Upolu, May – August 198062 specimens · 16 stops · 82 days · 4,343 km
H. Kennedy
3 islands · Aug – Sep 1979
H. Kennedy in Tahiti, Hawaiʻi Island and Upolu, August – September 197942 specimens · 11 stops · 33 days · 6,642 km
Timothy Flynn
3 islands · Oct – Nov 1989
Timothy Flynn in Upolu, Savaii and Maui, October – November 198943 specimens · 7 stops · 13 days · 4,300 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.