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. 34 journeys so far, 1920 to 1929, 12,836 specimens between them.
21 collectors and expeditions978 days in the field91,684 km between stops8,928 photographed specimens
34 journeys match
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
Marie Catherine Neal
Kauaʻi · 1–20 Sep 1921
Marie Catherine Neal in Kauaʻi, 1–20 September 1921153 specimens · 3 stops · 20 days · 38 km
Otto Herman Swezey
3 islands of the United States · Mar – Jul 1920
Otto Herman Swezey in Oʻahu, Maui and Kauaʻi, March – July 1920103 specimens · 19 stops · 129 days · 191 km
William H. Meinecke
Kauaʻi · 23–28 Dec 1926
William H. Meinecke in Kauaʻi, 23–28 December 1926170 specimens · 2 stops · 6 days · 32 km
O.L. Smith
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Sep – Oct 1921
O.L. Smith in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, September – October 192183 specimens · 4 stops · 31 days · 186 km
Harry G. Lee
4 islands of the United States · Oct – Dec 1925
Harry G. Lee across 4 islands of the United States, October – December 192548 specimens · 9 stops · 62 days · 1,105 km
Lewis Thayer
Kauaʻi · Jul – Aug 1925
Lewis Thayer in Kauaʻi, July – August 192576 specimens · 9 stops · 37 days
Dranga
Kauaʻi · Nov – Dec 1926
Dranga in Kauaʻi, November – December 192674 specimens · 3 stops · 17 days · 27 km
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
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.