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. 4 journeys so far, 1964 to 1968, 504 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions64 days in the field13,271 km between stops407 photographed specimens
4 journeys match
G.T. Kraft
22 islands of the Philippines · Apr – Jul 1968
G.T. Kraft across 22 islands of the Philippines, April – July 1968166 specimens · 24 stops · 82 days · 3,991 km
Maxwell S. Doty
11 islands · Dec 1964 – Feb 1965
Maxwell S. Doty across 11 islands, December 1964 – February 1965158 specimens · 14 stops · 38 days · 6,438 km
V.B. Alvarez
9 islands of the Philippines · Dec 1964 – Feb 1965
V.B. Alvarez across 9 islands of the Philippines, December 1964 – February 1965122 specimens · 9 stops · 41 days · 2,185 km
Maxwell S. Doty
6 islands · Dec 1965 – Jan 1966
Maxwell S. Doty across 6 islands, December 1965 – January 196658 specimens · 5 stops · 32 days · 657 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.