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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. 18 journeys so far, 1930 to 1939, 10,292 specimens between them.

12 collectors and expeditions389 days in the field288,335 km between stops8,803 photographed specimens

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18 journeys match

Lapham Exped

12 islands · Jul – Oct 1938

Lapham Exped, July – October 1938

2,585 specimens · 25 stops · 98 days · 3,171 km

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo

12 islands of Fiji · Jun – Oct 1938

Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 12 islands of Fiji, June – October 1938

2,255 specimens · 28 stops · 115 days · 15,460 km

E.P. Hume

3 islands · Jun – Sep 1931

E.P. Hume in Savaii, Tutuila and Upolu, June – September 1931

761 specimens · 47 stops · 92 days · 225 km

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.

3 islands · Mar – May 1936

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Guam, Maguao and Tutuila, March – May 1936

849 specimens · 17 stops · 38 days · 136,355 km

Erling Christophersen

3 islands · Dec 1930 – May 1931

Erling Christophersen in Oʻahu, Kahoʻolawe and Tutuila, December 1930 – May 1931

529 specimens · 26 stops · 149 days · 9,626 km

Truman George Yuncker

6 islands · Sep – Dec 1939

Truman George Yuncker across 6 islands, September – December 1939

573 specimens · 26 stops · 81 days · 2,624 km

Harold St.John

7 islands · Apr – Aug 1937

Harold St.John across 7 islands, April – August 1937

459 specimens · 38 stops · 139 days · 68,706 km

Erling Christophersen

3 islands · May – Jul 1932

Erling Christophersen in Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Tutuila, May – July 1932

518 specimens · 4 stops · 57 days · 8,548 km

David Timmins Fullaway

4 islands of the United States · Feb – Mar 1930

David Timmins Fullaway across 4 islands of the United States, February – March 1930

477 specimens · 5 stops · 42 days · 259 km

A. Meebold

3 islands · Jun – Jul 1932

A. Meebold in Viti Levu, Oʻahu and Tutuila, June – July 1932

336 specimens · 4 stops · 31 days · 5,857 km

Wray Harris

3 islands of Samoa · Jul – Aug 1937

Wray Harris in Upolu, Tutuila and Olosega, July – August 1937

284 specimens · 3 stops · 32 days · 258 km

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.

7 islands · Mar – Apr 1935

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 7 islands, March – April 1935

175 specimens · 12 stops · 27 days · 12,205 km

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.

14 islands · Jul – Sep 1938

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 14 islands, July – September 1938

131 specimens · 17 stops · 49 days · 11,700 km

Erling Christophersen

3 islands · Dec 1931 – Feb 1932

Erling Christophersen in Tutuila, Oʻahu and Upolu, December 1931 – February 1932

148 specimens · 8 stops · 47 days · 8,662 km

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.

Hawaiʻi Island and Tutuila · Jul – Aug 1935

Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Hawaiʻi Island and Tutuila, July – August 1935

63 specimens · 7 stops · 41 days · 4,120 km

William G. or J Coultas

Tutuila and Savaii · Sep – Oct 1936

William G. or J Coultas in Tutuila and Savaii, September – October 1936

50 specimens · 3 stops · 42 days · 207 km

Zaca Exp

Tutuila and Savaii · 1–25 Oct 1936

Zaca Exp in Tutuila and Savaii, 1–25 October 1936

46 specimens · 2 stops · 25 days · 207 km

Erling Christophersen

Tutuila and Upolu · 24–29 Jun 1931

Erling Christophersen in Tutuila and Upolu, 24–29 June 1931

53 specimens · 3 stops · 6 days · 145 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.