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. 112 journeys so far, 1940 to 1950, 26,541 specimens between them.
60 collectors and expeditions2,397 days in the field747,695 km between stops18,447 photographed specimens
112 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
23 islands · May – Dec 1949
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 23 islands, May – December 19492,551 specimens · 57 stops · 218 days · 71,593 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
56 islands · Apr – Nov 1946
F. Raymond Fosberg across 56 islands, April – November 19462,439 specimens · 102 stops · 209 days · 105,682 km
Donald Anderson
22 islands · Aug 1949 – Mar 1950
Donald Anderson across 22 islands, August 1949 – March 19501,249 specimens · 70 stops · 211 days · 151,545 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of Fiji · Nov 1940 – Jul 1941
Otto Degener across 5 islands of Fiji, November 1940 – July 19411,263 specimens · 59 stops · 237 days · 15,888 km
A.J. Bernatowicz
21 islands · Feb – Sep 1949
A.J. Bernatowicz across 21 islands, February – September 1949593 specimens · 106 stops · 209 days
Edward Yataro Hosaka
31 islands · Apr – Aug 1946
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 31 islands, April – August 1946872 specimens · 51 stops · 110 days · 43,680 km
Truman George Yuncker
Niue Island and Niue · Jan – Feb 1940
Truman George Yuncker in Niue Island and Niue, January – February 1940839 specimens · 37 stops · 48 days · 54 km
Otto Degener
6 islands of the United States · Apr – Sep 1949
Otto Degener across 6 islands of the United States, April – September 1949517 specimens · 50 stops · 133 days · 1,742 km
R.L. Wilbur
3 islands of the United States · Nov 1947 – Apr 1948
R.L. Wilbur in Kauaʻi, Molokaʻi and Oʻahu, November 1947 – April 1948420 specimens · 33 stops · 176 days · 1,115 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
4 islands · May – Aug 1940
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 4 islands, May – August 1940616 specimens · 10 stops · 86 days · 181 km
Sydney Glassman
8 islands · Jun – Sep 1949
Sydney Glassman across 8 islands, June – September 1949524 specimens · 41 stops · 82 days · 1,957 km
Harold St.John
13 islands · Jul – Nov 1946
Harold St.John across 13 islands, July – November 1946590 specimens · 27 stops · 120 days · 9,900 km
Grady L. Webster
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Nov 1947 – Apr 1948
Grady L. Webster in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, November 1947 – April 1948329 specimens · 34 stops · 176 days · 1,112 km
Harold St.John
Maui and Oʻahu · Aug – Nov 1945
Harold St.John in Maui and Oʻahu, August – November 1945369 specimens · 21 stops · 107 days · 649 km
Albert C. Smith
3 islands of Fiji · Oct – Dec 1947
Albert C. Smith in Vanua Levu, Macuata and Fiji, October – December 1947527 specimens · 16 stops · 69 days
T. Murashige
6 islands of the United States · May – Sep 1949
T. Murashige across 6 islands of the United States, May – September 1949317 specimens · 39 stops · 99 days · 1,334 km
A.M. Albert Mead
7 islands of Japan · Jun – Jul 1949
A.M. Albert Mead across 7 islands of Japan, June – July 1949380 specimens · 18 stops · 42 days · 844 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
3 islands · Jul – Aug 1946
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Chichi-Jima, July – August 1946326 specimens · 23 stops · 54 days · 465 km
A.L.M. Mitchell
Maui and Oʻahu · Jul – Sep 1945
A.L.M. Mitchell in Maui and Oʻahu, July – September 1945333 specimens · 17 stops · 63 days · 423 km
R.S. Cowan
11 islands · Aug – Sep 1946
R.S. Cowan across 11 islands, August – September 1946484 specimens · 17 stops · 41 days · 1,023 km
E. Ordonez
5 islands of Fiji · Nov 1940 – Jan 1941
E. Ordonez across 5 islands of Fiji, November 1940 – January 1941444 specimens · 14 stops · 70 days · 10,426 km
Harold St.John
5 islands · Sep 1947 – Jan 1948
Harold St.John across 5 islands, September 1947 – January 1948276 specimens · 21 stops · 126 days · 13,296 km
Wm. R. Taylor
6 islands · Feb – Aug 1946
Wm. R. Taylor across 6 islands, February – August 1946242 specimens · 52 stops · 156 days · 5,901 km
Harold St.John
7 islands · Dec 1946 – Feb 1947
Harold St.John across 7 islands, December 1946 – February 1947291 specimens · 17 stops · 67 days · 4,927 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.