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. 148 journeys so far, 1940 to 1950, 31,508 specimens between them.
80 collectors and expeditions2,738 days in the field772,449 km between stops22,502 photographed specimens
148 journeys match
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Oʻahu · 9–28 May 1943
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Oʻahu, 9–28 May 194374 specimens · 2 stops · 20 days
Edmund J. Meadows
Oʻahu · 14–24 Sep 1941
Edmund J. Meadows in Oʻahu, 14–24 September 194143 specimens · 2 stops · 11 days · 33 km
Grace Burgess Grace Burgess
Hawaiʻi Island · 1–11 Jun 1947
Grace Burgess Grace Burgess in Hawaiʻi Island, 1–11 June 194740 specimens · 2 stops · 11 days · 5,621 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Oʻahu · 1–19 Mar 1942
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Oʻahu, 1–19 March 194265 specimens · 2 stops · 19 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.