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. 203 journeys so far, 1920 to 1930, 49,537 specimens between them.
96 collectors and expeditions3,992 days in the field834,815 km between stops37,014 photographed specimens
203 journeys match
A.G. Whiting
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Apr – May 1929
A.G. Whiting in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, April – May 192947 specimens · 4 stops · 11 days · 254 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
Kingman Reef and Maui · Jun – Jul 1926
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston in Kingman Reef and Maui, June – July 192643 specimens · 3 stops · 49 days · 3,448 km
Charles N. Forbes
Oʻahu and Maui · Jan – Feb 1920
Charles N. Forbes in Oʻahu and Maui, January – February 192048 specimens · 3 stops · 28 days · 96 km
C.S. English Jr.
the United States · 2–15 Aug 1925
C.S. English Jr. in the United States, 2–15 August 192543 specimens · 8 stops · 14 days
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Kenneth Pike Emory
3 islands · 14–28 Apr 1925
Kenneth Pike Emory in Raiatea, Tahiti and Taha'A, 14–28 April 192543 specimens · 3 stops · 15 days · 269 km
G. Whiting
Oʻahu · 12–23 Jan 1929
G. Whiting in Oʻahu, 12–23 January 192953 specimens · 2 stops · 12 days · 41 km
S. Frank Kajewski
Vanua Lava · 5–18 Jul 1928
S. Frank Kajewski in Vanua Lava, 5–18 July 192847 specimens · 4 stops · 14 days
C.W. Dodge
4 islands of Panama · 3–7 Sep 1925
C.W. Dodge across 4 islands of Panama, 3–7 September 192545 specimens · 3 stops · 5 days
W.J. Vaughn
the United States · 20–30 May 1926
W.J. Vaughn in the United States, 20–30 May 192661 specimens · 3 stops · 11 days
G.N. Jones
the United States · 20–30 May 1926
G.N. Jones in the United States, 20–30 May 192657 specimens · 3 stops · 11 days
J. Thaanum
the United States · 20–30 May 1926
J. Thaanum in the United States, 20–30 May 192654 specimens · 3 stops · 11 days
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date (year, month and day; a bare “1 January” is treated as a missing day) and a named collector is a diary entry. For each collector the days are read in order, each day given the place most of its labels name. The place where a collector spent more than forty percent of their days, and at least sixty of them, is home: days there are left out.
A gap of more than 21 days between collecting days ends one journey and begins the next. A journey must run five to four hundred days, hold at least forty specimens and touch at least two places. Within it, consecutive days inside the same or a neighbouring tenth-of-a-degree cell (about eleven kilometres) are one stop; the stop’s point is the mean of its labels’ coordinates, or the island’s centre when none carry any.
Companions are collectors whose own labels put them in the same cell on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it, feature it or hide it; those words survive every rebuild. Everything else is read off the specimens and rebuilt by harvest.mjs expeditions as the records improve.