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. 13 journeys so far, 1923 to 1929, 7,263 specimens between them.
10 collectors and expeditions341 days in the field91,369 km between stops6,268 photographed specimens
13 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
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga
7 islands · Feb – Jun 1926
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga across 7 islands, February – June 19261,074 specimens · 11 stops · 138 days · 19,175 km
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · Aug – Sep 1929
Erling Christophersen in Upolu, Tutuila and Ofu, August – September 1929587 specimens · 24 stops · 37 days · 31 km
Samoan Exped
Tutuila · 17–31 Mar 1926
Samoan Exped, 17–31 March 19261,016 specimens · 2 stops · 15 days · 16 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
3 islands · Feb – Mar 1926
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Tutuila, Tau and Ofu, February – March 1926577 specimens · 4 stops · 29 days · 150 km
Erling Christophersen
5 islands · Oct – Nov 1929
Erling Christophersen across 5 islands, October – November 1929315 specimens · 20 stops · 44 days · 283 km
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga
4 islands · Dec 1925 – Jan 1926
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga across 4 islands, December 1925 – January 1926365 specimens · 3 stops · 39 days · 8,285 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
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
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
4 islands · 1–15 Dec 1925
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston across 4 islands, 1–15 December 1925351 specimens · 2 stops · 15 days · 4,142 km
Otto Herman Swezey
6 islands · Jul – Sep 1923
Otto Herman Swezey across 6 islands, July – September 192395 specimens · 15 stops · 64 days · 824 km
Dranga
Tutuila and Tau · Feb – Mar 1926
Dranga in Tutuila and Tau, February – March 1926151 specimens · 3 stops · 29 days · 144 km
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Alfred F. Judd Jr
3 islands · Feb – Mar 1926
Alfred F. Judd Jr in Tutuila, Lānaʻi and Ofu, February – March 192643 specimens · 6 stops · 46 days · 4,276 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.