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. 4 journeys so far, 1913 to 1913, 1,282 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions52 days in the field3,662 km between stops1,275 photographed specimens
4 journeys match
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1913
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 1913422 specimens · 10 stops · 45 days · 815 km
Pils
4 islands · Jan – Mar 1913
Pils across 4 islands, January – March 1913362 specimens · 13 stops · 54 days · 1,100 km
Charles N. Forbes
5 islands of the United States · Feb – Apr 1913
Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, February – April 1913309 specimens · 8 stops · 60 days · 556 km
H.A. Pilsbry
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1913
H.A. Pilsbry across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 1913189 specimens · 13 stops · 56 days · 1,191 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.