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. 32 journeys so far, 1900 to 1910, 5,315 specimens between them.
18 collectors and expeditions611 days in the field80,207 km between stops2,768 photographed specimens
32 journeys match
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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
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C.S. Dole
Kauaʻi · 1–19 Jul 1909
C.S. Dole in Kauaʻi, 1–19 July 190963 specimens · 3 stops · 19 days · 110 km
Charles N. Forbes
the United States · Aug – Nov 1907
Charles N. Forbes in the United States, August – November 190748 specimens · 13 stops · 99 days
C.L. Pollard
Cuba · Jan – Feb 1902
C.L. Pollard in Cuba, January – February 190242 specimens · 8 stops · 39 days
Walter M. Giffard
the United States · Sep – Oct 1907
Walter M. Giffard in the United States, September – October 190744 specimens · 7 stops · 49 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.