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. 5 journeys so far, 1921 to 1927, 1,389 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions101 days in the field100,128 km between stops1,346 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
Marie Catherine Neal
3 islands of New Zealand · Aug 1925 – Jan 1926
Marie Catherine Neal in New Zealand, South Island and Dunedin, August 1925 – January 19261,025 specimens · 65 stops · 147 days · 99,863 km
Marie Catherine Neal
Kauaʻi · 1–20 Sep 1921
Marie Catherine Neal in Kauaʻi, 1–20 September 1921153 specimens · 3 stops · 20 days · 38 km
Marie Catherine Neal
Hawaiʻi Island · Jun – Jul 1922
Marie Catherine Neal in Hawaiʻi Island, June – July 192282 specimens · 8 stops · 18 days
Marie Catherine Neal
Hawaiʻi Island · Jul – Aug 1927
Marie Catherine Neal in Hawaiʻi Island, July – August 192756 specimens · 9 stops · 32 days · 77 km
Marie Catherine Neal
Hawaiʻi Island · 1–9 Apr 1924
Marie Catherine Neal in Hawaiʻi Island, 1–9 April 192473 specimens · 6 stops · 9 days · 150 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.