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. 6 journeys so far, 1909 to 1975, 762 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions212 days in the field706 km between stops478 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
M.M. Fleischer
3 islands · Feb – Apr 1909
M.M. Fleischer in Luzon, Penang and Java, February – April 1909184 specimens · 16 stops · 64 days
Otto Herman Swezey
Guam · May – Nov 1936
Otto Herman Swezey in Guam, May – November 1936137 specimens · 45 stops · 207 days
F. Raymond Fosberg
7 islands · Jan – Mar 1968
F. Raymond Fosberg across 7 islands, January – March 1968177 specimens · 44 stops · 62 days
M. Vroman
5 islands · Dec 1957 – Jul 1958
M. Vroman across 5 islands, December 1957 – July 195849 specimens · 35 stops · 189 days
William Robert Barker
New Guinea · Mar – May 1975
William Robert Barker in New Guinea, March – May 1975138 specimens · 3 stops · 82 days · 706 km
Tsing-Chao Maa
4 countries · May – Sep 1959
Tsing-Chao Maa across 4 countries, May – September 195977 specimens · 16 stops · 102 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.