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. 273 journeys so far, 1930 to 1940, 124,527 specimens between them.
148 collectors and expeditions5,326 days in the field971,237 km between stops113,490 photographed specimens
273 journeys match
Zaca Exp
Tutuila and Savaii · 1–25 Oct 1936
Zaca Exp in Tutuila and Savaii, 1–25 October 193646 specimens · 2 stops · 25 days · 207 km
D'Alte A. Welch
Hawaiʻi Island · Dec 1935 – Jan 1936
D'Alte A. Welch in Hawaiʻi Island, December 1935 – January 193656 specimens · 2 stops · 6 days · 87 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Hawaiʻi Island · 23–28 Nov 1932
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Hawaiʻi Island, 23–28 November 193245 specimens · 6 stops · 6 days
Erling Christophersen
Tutuila and Upolu · 24–29 Jun 1931
Erling Christophersen in Tutuila and Upolu, 24–29 June 193153 specimens · 3 stops · 6 days · 145 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Jan – Feb 1935
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, January – February 193542 specimens · 4 stops · 21 days · 179 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Mangareva · May – Jun 1934
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Mangareva, May – June 193444 specimens · 2 stops · 12 days · 4 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Oʻahu · 11–20 Nov 1934
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Oʻahu, 11–20 November 193463 specimens · 3 stops · 10 days
R. Kanehira
6 islands · Jun – Jul 1931
R. Kanehira across 6 islands, June – July 193153 specimens · 2 stops · 8 days
Francis Xavier Williams
1–13 Feb 1937
Francis Xavier Williams, 1–13 February 193770 specimens · 2 stops · 13 days
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.