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. 138 journeys so far, 1920 to 1930, 35,125 specimens between them.
70 collectors and expeditions3,296 days in the field498,120 km between stops23,177 photographed specimens
138 journeys match
Harold St.John
Kauaʻi · Mar – Jun 1926
Harold St.John in Kauaʻi, March – June 1926270 specimens · 15 stops · 91 days
Whitney Expedition
27 islands of French Polynesia · Feb – Jul 1923
Whitney Expedition, February – July 1923157 specimens · 34 stops · 154 days · 1,174 km
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
7 islands · Aug – Sep 1923
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 7 islands, August – September 1923171 specimens · 15 stops · 36 days · 5,391 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
A. Meebold
4 islands · Oct – Dec 1929
A. Meebold across 4 islands, October – December 1929163 specimens · 9 stops · 73 days · 9,986 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
S. Frank Kajewski
Anatom and Aneityum · Feb – Mar 1929
S. Frank Kajewski in Anatom and Aneityum, February – March 1929200 specimens · 9 stops · 46 days
Wm. R. Taylor
8 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1924
Wm. R. Taylor across 8 islands of the United States, June – August 192496 specimens · 41 stops · 70 days
H.J. Jensen
7 islands · Feb – May 1922
H.J. Jensen across 7 islands, February – May 192291 specimens · 37 stops · 106 days
Jackson Harris
Oʻahu · Aug – Oct 1924
Jackson Harris in Oʻahu, August – October 1924110 specimens · 20 stops · 58 days · 226 km
A. Hof
8 islands of Bermuda · Jun – Aug 1925
A. Hof across 8 islands of Bermuda, June – August 1925116 specimens · 20 stops · 37 days
D. Wesley Garber
3 islands of American Samoa · May – Jul 1925
D. Wesley Garber in Ofu, Olosega and Tutuila, May – July 1925143 specimens · 16 stops · 42 days · 209 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
Otto Herman Swezey
4 islands of the United States · Jul – Oct 1921
Otto Herman Swezey across 4 islands of the United States, July – October 1921185 specimens · 22 stops · 99 days · 1,113 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
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · May – Jul 1929
Erling Christophersen in Java, Borneo and Krakatau, May – July 1929104 specimens · 14 stops · 63 days
Harold St.John
Kauaʻi · Jun – Aug 1925
Harold St.John in Kauaʻi, June – August 1925162 specimens · 18 stops · 58 days
D. Wesley Garber
Tutuila and Goat Island · Nov 1924 – Jan 1925
D. Wesley Garber in Tutuila and Goat Island, November 1924 – January 1925170 specimens · 9 stops · 38 days
Harold E. Parks
Rarotonga · May – Jul 1929
Harold E. Parks in Rarotonga, May – July 1929115 specimens · 17 stops · 69 days
G.R. Ewart III
Maui and Oʻahu · Dec 1928 – Jan 1929
G.R. Ewart III in Maui and Oʻahu, December 1928 – January 1929136 specimens · 7 stops · 38 days · 247 km
Joseph F. Rock
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1920
Joseph F. Rock across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 1920107 specimens · 12 stops · 42 days · 445 km
Marie Catherine Neal
Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi · 1–30 Aug 1929
Marie Catherine Neal in Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, 1–30 August 1929111 specimens · 12 stops · 30 days · 450 km
D. Wesley Garber
Tau and Olosega · Dec 1921 – Jan 1922
D. Wesley Garber in Tau and Olosega, December 1921 – January 1922133 specimens · 10 stops · 45 days
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.