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. 5 journeys so far, 1892 to 1895, 1,553 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions94 days in the field
5 journeys match
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins
the United States · May – Oct 1893
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins in the United States, May – October 1893344 specimens · 23 stops · 154 days
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins
Hawaiʻi Island · Jun – Sep 1892
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins in Hawaiʻi Island, June – September 1892367 specimens · 10 stops · 76 days
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins
the United States · May – Aug 1895
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins in the United States, May – August 1895306 specimens · 7 stops · 69 days
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins
the United States · Apr – May 1895
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins in the United States, April – May 1895309 specimens · 3 stops · 31 days
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins
the United States · Mar – May 1894
Robert Cyril Layton Perkins in the United States, March – May 1894227 specimens · 3 stops · 35 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.