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. 3 journeys so far, 1924 to 1925, 912 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions69 days in the field26,688 km between stops811 photographed specimens
Islands
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Journeys with photographed specimens3 journeys match
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga
8 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1924
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga across 8 islands of the United States, July – August 1924504 specimens · 13 stops · 52 days · 6,915 km
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
18 islands · Nov 1924 – May 1925
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 18 islands, November 1924 – May 1925244 specimens · 43 stops · 188 days · 15,411 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
Molokaʻi and Kiritimati · Jul – Aug 1924
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Molokaʻi and Kiritimati, July – August 1924164 specimens · 6 stops · 35 days · 4,362 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.