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. 5 journeys so far, 1954 to 1958, 910 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions192 days in the field31,301 km between stops596 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
Benjamin C. Stone
20 islands · Sep 1957 – Feb 1958
Benjamin C. Stone across 20 islands, September 1957 – February 1958507 specimens · 64 stops · 154 days · 21,480 km
Judson Linsley Gressitt
3 islands · Jun – Oct 1955
Judson Linsley Gressitt in New Guinea, Vanua Levu and New Britain, June – October 1955229 specimens · 62 stops · 128 days · 3,623 km
A.G. Floyd
New Britain and New Guinea · Jul – Aug 1954
A.G. Floyd in New Britain and New Guinea, July – August 195477 specimens · 13 stops · 55 days · 1,392 km
J. Barrau
6 islands · Jan – Apr 1958
J. Barrau across 6 islands, January – April 195856 specimens · 22 stops · 81 days · 4,806 km
A.G. Floyd
New Britain · Dec 1954 – Jan 1955
A.G. Floyd in New Britain, December 1954 – January 195541 specimens · 8 stops · 23 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.