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. 44 journeys so far, 1921 to 1971, 11,513 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions875 days in the field295,371 km between stops8,533 photographed specimens
44 journeys match
Harold St.John
Oʻahu · Apr – Jul 1932
Harold St.John in Oʻahu, April – July 1932114 specimens · 14 stops · 120 days · 259 km
Harold St.John
11 islands · Jul – Aug 1949
Harold St.John across 11 islands, July – August 1949180 specimens · 15 stops · 30 days · 6,890 km
Harold St.John
3 islands · Oct 1951 – Jan 1952
Harold St.John in Maui, Oʻahu and Maug, October 1951 – January 1952115 specimens · 15 stops · 85 days · 313 km
Harold St.John
Kauaʻi · Jun – Aug 1925
Harold St.John in Kauaʻi, June – August 1925162 specimens · 18 stops · 58 days
Harold St.John
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1955
Harold St.John across 4 islands of the United States, June – July 195596 specimens · 11 stops · 34 days · 411 km
Harold St.John
Oʻahu and Ujelang Atoll · Feb – Jul 1952
Harold St.John in Oʻahu and Ujelang Atoll, February – July 195266 specimens · 18 stops · 160 days
Harold St.John
Molokaʻi and Oʻahu · Dec 1938 – Jan 1939
Harold St.John in Molokaʻi and Oʻahu, December 1938 – January 1939125 specimens · 5 stops · 20 days · 101 km
Harold St.John
Rapa · Jul – Aug 1921
Harold St.John in Rapa, July – August 1921128 specimens · 12 stops · 34 days
Harold St.John
Oʻahu and Maui · Dec 1940 – Feb 1941
Harold St.John in Oʻahu and Maui, December 1940 – February 194189 specimens · 7 stops · 54 days · 96 km
Harold St.John
Lānaʻi and Oʻahu · Mar – May 1947
Harold St.John in Lānaʻi and Oʻahu, March – May 194777 specimens · 8 stops · 56 days · 365 km
Harold St.John
the United States · Jul – Sep 1924
Harold St.John in the United States, July – September 1924102 specimens · 13 stops · 50 days
Harold St.John
Oʻahu · Mar – Jun 1941
Harold St.John in Oʻahu, March – June 194163 specimens · 11 stops · 71 days
Harold St.John
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Dec 1956 – Jan 1957
Harold St.John in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, December 1956 – January 195784 specimens · 8 stops · 14 days
Harold St.John
3 islands · Mar – Apr 1949
Harold St.John in Niʻihau, Nihoa and Enewetak Atoll, March – April 1949101 specimens · 4 stops · 14 days · 4,437 km
Harold St.John
Oʻahu · 4–30 May 1925
Harold St.John in Oʻahu, 4–30 May 192594 specimens · 10 stops · 27 days
Harold St.John
3 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1939
Harold St.John in Kauaʻi, Oʻahu and Molokaʻi, January – March 193958 specimens · 8 stops · 34 days · 540 km
Harold St.John
Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi · Dec 1949 – Jan 1950
Harold St.John in Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, December 1949 – January 195063 specimens · 6 stops · 13 days · 450 km
Harold St.John
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · Jun – Jul 1971
Harold St.John in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, June – July 197162 specimens · 5 stops · 11 days · 230 km
Harold St.John
Oʻahu · 10–31 Mar 1935
Harold St.John in Oʻahu, 10–31 March 193565 specimens · 3 stops · 22 days
Harold St.John
Oʻahu · 5–12 Dec 1943
Harold St.John in Oʻahu, 5–12 December 194365 specimens · 2 stops · 8 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.