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. 7 journeys so far, 1893 to 1899, 906 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions183 days in the field2,287 km between stops764 photographed specimens
7 journeys match
A.A. Heller
3 islands of the United States · Mar – Nov 1895
A.A. Heller in Kauaʻi, Oʻahu and Maui, March – November 1895602 specimens · 77 stops · 257 days · 2,287 km
J.E.R. Tilden
4 islands · May – Aug 1898
J.E.R. Tilden across 4 islands, May – August 189866 specimens · 25 stops · 70 days
H. Dihm
Java and Sumatra · Aug – Nov 1899
H. Dihm in Java and Sumatra, August – November 189954 specimens · 30 stops · 119 days
M.M. Fleischer
Sri Lanka and Singapore · Feb – Mar 1898
M.M. Fleischer in Sri Lanka and Singapore, February – March 189853 specimens · 16 stops · 43 days
J.K. Small
the United States · Jun – Aug 1893
J.K. Small in the United States, June – August 189347 specimens · 9 stops · 59 days
J.E.R. Tilden
the United States and Canada · Jun – Aug 1897
J.E.R. Tilden in the United States and Canada, June – August 189740 specimens · 15 stops · 49 days
J.K. Small
the United States · 1–21 Apr 1893
J.K. Small in the United States, 1–21 April 189344 specimens · 3 stops · 21 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.