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. 15 journeys so far, 1941 to 1949, 2,808 specimens between them.
14 collectors and expeditions282 days in the field14,135 km between stops2,199 photographed specimens
15 journeys match
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
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
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
Harold St.John
3 islands of the United States · Dec 1948 – Jan 1949
Harold St.John in Molokaʻi, Niʻihau and Oʻahu, December 1948 – January 1949219 specimens · 8 stops · 25 days · 490 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
Oʻahu and Molokaʻi · Feb – Apr 1948
F. Raymond Fosberg in Oʻahu and Molokaʻi, February – April 1948132 specimens · 15 stops · 71 days · 524 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
4 islands of the United States · Oct – Dec 1947
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 4 islands of the United States, October – December 1947188 specimens · 15 stops · 40 days · 52 km
Carl Skottsberg
6 islands of the United States · Jan – Apr 1948
Carl Skottsberg across 6 islands of the United States, January – April 194875 specimens · 25 stops · 88 days · 1,565 km
Cottam Hudson
Molokaʻi and Oʻahu · Dec 1948 – Jan 1949
Cottam Hudson in Molokaʻi and Oʻahu, December 1948 – January 1949125 specimens · 6 stops · 15 days · 220 km
F. Fagerlind
6 islands of the United States · Jan – Apr 1948
F. Fagerlind across 6 islands of the United States, January – April 194870 specimens · 24 stops · 78 days · 1,702 km
M.L. Lohman
Molokaʻi and Oʻahu · Oct – Dec 1948
M.L. Lohman in Molokaʻi and Oʻahu, October – December 1948117 specimens · 15 stops · 75 days · 164 km
I.E. Lane
Molokaʻi and Oʻahu · Dec 1948 – Jan 1949
I.E. Lane in Molokaʻi and Oʻahu, December 1948 – January 194987 specimens · 6 stops · 27 days · 150 km
J.H. Maysilles
Molokaʻi · 19–29 Dec 1948
J.H. Maysilles in Molokaʻi, 19–29 December 1948103 specimens · 5 stops · 11 days · 61 km
G. Cottam
Molokaʻi · 19–27 Dec 1948
G. Cottam in Molokaʻi, 19–27 December 194883 specimens · 4 stops · 9 days · 71 km
W.J. Semmes
Molokaʻi · 23–27 Apr 1941
W.J. Semmes in Molokaʻi, 23–27 April 194164 specimens · 3 stops · 5 days · 18 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.