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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. 34 journeys so far, 1910 to 1920, 12,954 specimens between them.

15 collectors and expeditions725 days in the field25,353 km between stops9,952 photographed specimens

Joseph F. Rock

3 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1912

Joseph F. Rock in Hawaiʻi Island, Maui and Oʻahu, January – March 1912

133 specimens · 13 stops · 71 days · 136 km

Joseph F. Rock

3 islands of the United States · Jul – Sep 1918

Joseph F. Rock in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Molokaʻi, July – September 1918

168 specimens · 8 stops · 67 days · 409 km

John Colburn Bridwell

Maui and Oʻahu · Aug – Sep 1918

John Colburn Bridwell in Maui and Oʻahu, August – September 1918

124 specimens · 6 stops · 32 days · 69 km

Charles N. Forbes

3 islands of the United States · Oct 1910 – Jan 1911

Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu, Maui and Kauaʻi, October 1910 – January 1911

48 specimens · 16 stops · 97 days · 1,320 km

Charles N. Forbes

Oʻahu and Maui · Feb – May 1919

Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu and Maui, February – May 1919

44 specimens · 14 stops · 101 days · 191 km

Hammond

Lānaʻi and Maui · Jul – Aug 1910

Hammond in Lānaʻi and Maui, July – August 1910

42 specimens · 12 stops · 36 days · 442 km

David Timmins Fullaway

Maui · 12–18 May 1918

David Timmins Fullaway in Maui, 12–18 May 1918

141 specimens · 4 stops · 7 days

Walker

Maui · Jun – Jul 1919

Walker in Maui, June – July 1919

45 specimens · 3 stops · 39 days

Alice T. Cooke

Maui · 25–29 May 1915

Alice T. Cooke in Maui, 25–29 May 1915

55 specimens · 2 stops · 5 days · 38 km

Ditlev Due Thaanum

4 islands · 1–13 Oct 1911

Ditlev Due Thaanum across 4 islands, 1–13 October 1911

43 specimens · 2 stops · 13 days · 198 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.