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. 11 journeys so far, 1960 to 1969, 1,875 specimens between them.
10 collectors and expeditions412 days in the field94,463 km between stops1,421 photographed specimens
11 journeys match
Grady L. Webster
10 islands · Jun – Sep 1968
Grady L. Webster across 10 islands, June – September 1968510 specimens · 60 stops · 111 days · 38,525 km
Richard Hildreth
6 islands · Jul – Sep 1968
Richard Hildreth across 6 islands, July – September 1968322 specimens · 44 stops · 75 days · 8,666 km
H.O. Sleumer
New Guinea and Oʻahu · Jan – Feb 1962
H.O. Sleumer in New Guinea and Oʻahu, January – February 1962239 specimens · 22 stops · 42 days · 9,681 km
H.U. Stauffer
10 islands · Dec 1963 – Apr 1964
H.U. Stauffer across 10 islands, December 1963 – April 1964165 specimens · 43 stops · 140 days · 17,939 km
L.A.C. Craven
4 islands of Papua New Guinea · Jul – Sep 1964
L.A.C. Craven across 4 islands of Papua New Guinea, July – September 1964116 specimens · 43 stops · 85 days · 1,230 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
8 islands · Sep – Oct 1960
F. Raymond Fosberg across 8 islands, September – October 1960112 specimens · 22 stops · 56 days · 12,270 km
P.J. Darbyshire
New Guinea · Jun – Sep 1961
P.J. Darbyshire in New Guinea, June – September 196176 specimens · 40 stops · 109 days · 2,501 km
L.A.C. Craven
New Guinea · Jan – Apr 1966
L.A.C. Craven in New Guinea, January – April 196673 specimens · 22 stops · 102 days · 1,525 km
van Balgooy
New Guinea · Apr – Jul 1965
van Balgooy in New Guinea, April – July 1965102 specimens · 9 stops · 74 days · 1,118 km
C. Kalkman
New Guinea · Jun – Sep 1966
C. Kalkman in New Guinea, June – September 1966104 specimens · 6 stops · 98 days · 628 km
E.B. Mann
3 islands of Papua New Guinea · Jun – Jul 1969
E.B. Mann in Bagabag Island, Kar Kar and New Guinea, June – July 196956 specimens · 4 stops · 22 days · 380 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.