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. 48 journeys so far, 1920 to 1930, 16,482 specimens between them.
25 collectors and expeditions1,553 days in the field242,398 km between stops10,890 photographed specimens
48 journeys match
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
85 islands · Nov 1923 – Nov 1924
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 85 islands, November 1923 – November 19242,392 specimens · 109 stops · 342 days · 30,927 km
Laurence H. MacDaniels
12 islands · Oct 1926 – Jul 1927
Laurence H. MacDaniels across 12 islands, October 1926 – July 19272,144 specimens · 105 stops · 274 days · 40,135 km
Charles N. Forbes
3 islands of the United States · Mar – Jul 1920
Charles N. Forbes in Maui, Oʻahu and Lānaʻi, March – July 19201,158 specimens · 58 stops · 128 days · 1,111 km
Carl Skottsberg
4 islands of the United States · Apr – Nov 1922
Carl Skottsberg across 4 islands of the United States, April – November 1922855 specimens · 82 stops · 217 days · 6,013 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of the United States · Jan – Aug 1928
Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, January – August 1928748 specimens · 74 stops · 209 days · 1,716 km
F.L. Stevens
5 islands of the United States · May – Sep 1921
F.L. Stevens across 5 islands of the United States, May – September 19211,528 specimens · 60 stops · 153 days · 4,446 km
Harold St.John
Oʻahu and Maui · Sep 1929 – May 1930
Harold St.John in Oʻahu and Maui, September 1929 – May 1930759 specimens · 51 stops · 230 days · 1,207 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of the United States · Mar – Aug 1926
Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, March – August 1926607 specimens · 71 stops · 177 days · 3,068 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of the United States · Jun – Oct 1927
Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, June – October 1927581 specimens · 60 stops · 136 days · 1,266 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
6 islands of the United States · May – Sep 1923
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 6 islands of the United States, May – September 1923837 specimens · 23 stops · 122 days · 69,538 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Maui and Oʻahu · Feb – Jul 1920
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Maui and Oʻahu, February – July 1920658 specimens · 47 stops · 176 days · 1,222 km
Henry Wiebke
3 islands of the United States · Mar – Aug 1928
Henry Wiebke in Molokaʻi, Maui and Oʻahu, March – August 1928203 specimens · 32 stops · 146 days · 349 km
Henry Wiebke
4 islands of the United States · Mar – Aug 1926
Henry Wiebke across 4 islands of the United States, March – August 1926150 specimens · 51 stops · 152 days · 2,253 km
F.G. Smith
4 islands of the United States · Jan – May 1929
F.G. Smith across 4 islands of the United States, January – May 1929185 specimens · 19 stops · 110 days · 1,335 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Oʻahu and Maui · Dec 1928 – Feb 1929
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Oʻahu and Maui, December 1928 – February 1929244 specimens · 12 stops · 88 days · 650 km
Otto Degener
4 islands · Jun – Dec 1922
Otto Degener across 4 islands, June – December 1922113 specimens · 48 stops · 194 days · 3,540 km
Carl Skottsberg
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · 1–30 Sep 1926
Carl Skottsberg in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, 1–30 September 1926187 specimens · 16 stops · 30 days · 459 km
Henry Wiebke
Maui and Oʻahu · Jun – Aug 1927
Henry Wiebke in Maui and Oʻahu, June – August 1927127 specimens · 34 stops · 79 days · 304 km
Walter M. Giffard
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · Jun – Jul 1928
Walter M. Giffard in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, June – July 1928299 specimens · 4 stops · 31 days · 87 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
4 islands of the United States · Jul – Sep 1927
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 4 islands of the United States, July – September 1927243 specimens · 11 stops · 55 days · 849 km
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · Oct 1924 – Jan 1925
Erling Christophersen in Oʻahu, Tutuila and Hawaiʻi Island, October 1924 – January 1925126 specimens · 16 stops · 85 days · 17,725 km
Jackson Harris
Oʻahu · Aug – Oct 1924
Jackson Harris in Oʻahu, August – October 1924110 specimens · 20 stops · 58 days · 226 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
3 islands of the United States · Jun – Sep 1928
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Kauaʻi, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, June – September 1928168 specimens · 15 stops · 81 days · 1,078 km
Otto Herman Swezey
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Aug – Sep 1925
Otto Herman Swezey in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, August – September 1925211 specimens · 21 stops · 38 days · 254 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.