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. 32 journeys so far, 1930 to 1940, 11,107 specimens between them.
25 collectors and expeditions764 days in the field69,457 km between stops9,045 photographed specimens
32 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
32 islands · Apr – Oct 1934
F. Raymond Fosberg across 32 islands, April – October 19342,503 specimens · 85 stops · 201 days · 23,387 km
Olof H. Selling
5 islands of the United States · Jun – Oct 1938
Olof H. Selling across 5 islands of the United States, June – October 1938828 specimens · 44 stops · 106 days · 2,316 km
Harold St.John
7 islands · Sep 1932 – Jan 1933
Harold St.John across 7 islands, September 1932 – January 1933929 specimens · 23 stops · 113 days · 8,847 km
Carl Skottsberg
6 islands of the United States · Jun – Oct 1938
Carl Skottsberg across 6 islands of the United States, June – October 1938776 specimens · 47 stops · 106 days · 2,822 km
Lucy May Cranwell
6 islands of the United States · May – Oct 1938
Lucy May Cranwell across 6 islands of the United States, May – October 1938734 specimens · 51 stops · 146 days · 3,245 km
Harold St.John
5 islands · Sep 1930 – May 1931
Harold St.John across 5 islands, September 1930 – May 1931545 specimens · 46 stops · 258 days · 10,194 km
Harold St.John
4 islands of the United States · Sep 1931 – Mar 1932
Harold St.John across 4 islands of the United States, September 1931 – March 1932481 specimens · 30 stops · 167 days · 1,433 km
Truman George Yuncker
3 islands of the United States · Aug 1932 – Jan 1933
Truman George Yuncker in Molokaʻi, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, August 1932 – January 1933335 specimens · 35 stops · 150 days · 463 km
Donald Anderson
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Nov 1933 – Jan 1934
Donald Anderson in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, November 1933 – January 1934483 specimens · 10 stops · 53 days · 825 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Kauaʻi and Maui · Jun – Aug 1937
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Kauaʻi and Maui, June – August 1937575 specimens · 25 stops · 78 days · 481 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
4 islands · Jun – Sep 1936
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 4 islands, June – September 1936232 specimens · 37 stops · 84 days · 4 km
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · May – Jul 1932
Erling Christophersen in Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Tutuila, May – July 1932518 specimens · 4 stops · 57 days · 8,548 km
Harold St.John
3 islands of the United States · Dec 1937 – Jan 1938
Harold St.John in Hawaiʻi Island, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, December 1937 – January 1938290 specimens · 15 stops · 37 days · 359 km
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R.J. Baker
3 islands of the United States · Sep 1932 – Jan 1933
R.J. Baker in Molokaʻi, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, September 1932 – January 1933204 specimens · 16 stops · 115 days · 120 km
R. Inafuku
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Dec 1930 – May 1931
R. Inafuku in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, December 1930 – May 1931116 specimens · 26 stops · 147 days · 509 km
Edwin B. Bartram
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Feb 1930
Edwin B. Bartram across 4 islands of the United States, January – February 1930135 specimens · 23 stops · 47 days · 800 km
J.W. Coulter
3 islands of the United States · 1–29 Dec 1932
J.W. Coulter in Molokaʻi, Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, 1–29 December 1932180 specimens · 7 stops · 29 days · 28 km
D'Alte A. Welch
Kauaʻi · 1–28 Sep 1931
D'Alte A. Welch in Kauaʻi, 1–28 September 1931260 specimens · 2 stops · 28 days · 67 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi · Oct – Nov 1936
Edward Yataro Hosaka in Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, October – November 1936105 specimens · 9 stops · 33 days · 428 km
E.P. Hume
Kauaʻi · Dec 1930 – Jan 1931
E.P. Hume in Kauaʻi, December 1930 – January 1931103 specimens · 10 stops · 15 days · 131 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
Kauaʻi · Dec 1930 – Jan 1931
Edward Yataro Hosaka in Kauaʻi, December 1930 – January 1931101 specimens · 10 stops · 15 days · 131 km
Otto Herman Swezey
3 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1932
Otto Herman Swezey in Kauaʻi, Oʻahu and Molokaʻi, May – July 193269 specimens · 23 stops · 54 days · 540 km
Donald Mitchell
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Nov 1930 – Jan 1931
Donald Mitchell in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, November 1930 – January 193164 specimens · 10 stops · 36 days · 254 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
5 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1931
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 5 islands of the United States, July – August 193182 specimens · 6 stops · 24 days · 1,149 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.