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. 3 journeys so far, 1931 to 1938, 1,581 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions129 days in the field7,649 km between stops1,424 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens3 journeys match
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
E.S.C. Handy
4 islands of the United States · Jul – Sep 1931
E.S.C. Handy across 4 islands of the United States, July – September 193171 specimens · 5 stops · 43 days · 1,582 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.