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. 9 journeys so far, 1900 to 1910, 1,178 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions133 days in the field25,434 km between stops499 photographed specimens
Islands
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Journeys with photographed specimens9 journeys match
Alvin Seale
3 islands · Mar – Jul 1900
Alvin Seale in Guam, Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, March – July 1900321 specimens · 26 stops · 129 days · 12,804 km
J.E.R. Tilden
3 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1900
J.E.R. Tilden in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, May – July 1900103 specimens · 18 stops · 90 days · 2,500 km
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu and Kauaʻi · Nov 1909 – Jan 1910
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, November 1909 – January 191061 specimens · 15 stops · 61 days · 1,270 km
Alvin Seale
4 islands · Jan – Feb 1902
Alvin Seale across 4 islands, January – February 1902320 specimens · 2 stops · 20 days
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William Alanson Bryan
Oʻahu · Nov 1903 – Jan 1904
William Alanson Bryan in Oʻahu, November 1903 – January 190465 specimens · 8 stops · 59 days · 252 km
William Alanson Bryan
5 islands · Jul – Aug 1902
William Alanson Bryan across 5 islands, July – August 190251 specimens · 8 stops · 32 days · 4,185 km
W.T. Brigham
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · 1–7 Sep 1908
W.T. Brigham in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, 1–7 September 1908109 specimens · 2 stops · 7 days
Chester Thompson
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · 1–7 Sep 1908
Chester Thompson in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, 1–7 September 1908107 specimens · 2 stops · 7 days
Alvin Seale
Tahiti and Oʻahu · Nov – Dec 1900
Alvin Seale in Tahiti and Oʻahu, November – December 190041 specimens · 2 stops · 20 days · 4,423 km
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.