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. 4 journeys so far, 1972 to 1975, 316 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions50 days in the field305 photographed specimens
4 journeys match
Isabelle Abbott
St. Croix · Dec 1972 – Jan 1973
Isabelle Abbott in St. Croix, December 1972 – January 1973130 specimens · 12 stops · 28 days
Donald P. Abbott
St. Croix · Dec 1972 – Feb 1973
Donald P. Abbott in St. Croix, December 1972 – February 197363 specimens · 14 stops · 34 days
Isabelle Abbott
St. Croix · Dec 1974 – Jan 1975
Isabelle Abbott in St. Croix, December 1974 – January 197563 specimens · 11 stops · 28 days
Isabelle Abbott
St. Croix · 2–21 Jan 1974
Isabelle Abbott in St. Croix, 2–21 January 197460 specimens · 10 stops · 20 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.