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. 8 journeys so far, 1952 to 1959, 1,026 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions114 days in the field19,802 km between stops356 photographed specimens
8 journeys match
C.H. C. Hoyt
Oʻahu · Nov 1952 – May 1953
C.H. C. Hoyt in Oʻahu, November 1952 – May 1953301 specimens · 20 stops · 183 days · 849 km
John W. Beardsley
Kauaʻi · Jul – Aug 1959
John W. Beardsley in Kauaʻi, July – August 1959172 specimens · 9 stops · 61 days
John W. Beardsley
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · Aug – Oct 1958
John W. Beardsley in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, August – October 1958123 specimens · 14 stops · 87 days · 230 km
C.H. C. Hoyt
Oʻahu · Aug – Nov 1952
C.H. C. Hoyt in Oʻahu, August – November 195289 specimens · 12 stops · 81 days · 134 km
Joseph F. Rock
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · 1–29 Dec 1955
Joseph F. Rock in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, 1–29 December 195557 specimens · 7 stops · 29 days · 459 km
H.E. Milliron
4 islands · May – Oct 1958
H.E. Milliron across 4 islands, May – October 195841 specimens · 18 stops · 136 days · 10,829 km
Tsing-Chao Maa
3 countries · Aug – Dec 1958
Tsing-Chao Maa in Malaysia, Singapore and Papua New Guinea, August – December 195850 specimens · 16 stops · 111 days · 7,301 km
George Butler
Laysan · 20–24 Jul 1959
George Butler in Laysan, 20–24 July 1959193 specimens · 2 stops · 5 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.