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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. 48 journeys so far, 1960 to 1970, 9,206 specimens between them.

34 collectors and expeditions1,030 days in the field162,790 km between stops6,667 photographed specimens

R.E. DeWreede

Maui · 1–22 Aug 1967

R.E. DeWreede in Maui, 1–22 August 1967

169 specimens · 4 stops · 22 days · 45 km

Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss

Maui · Mar – May 1967

Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss in Maui, March – May 1967

96 specimens · 17 stops · 62 days · 301 km

F. Raymond Fosberg

4 islands of the United States · Feb – Apr 1963

F. Raymond Fosberg across 4 islands of the United States, February – April 1963

100 specimens · 18 stops · 41 days · 24,929 km

C.H. Lamoureux

3 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1962

C.H. Lamoureux in Molokaʻi, Maui and Midway Atoll, June – July 1962

151 specimens · 4 stops · 36 days · 2,230 km

Maxwell S. Doty

3 islands of the United States · Mar – May 1965

Maxwell S. Doty in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, March – May 1965

99 specimens · 11 stops · 79 days · 1,350 km

W.J. Gilbert

6 islands · Jun – Aug 1963

W.J. Gilbert across 6 islands, June – August 1963

69 specimens · 15 stops · 62 days · 5,418 km

F. Raymond Fosberg

4 islands · Aug – Sep 1961

F. Raymond Fosberg across 4 islands, August – September 1961

70 specimens · 13 stops · 34 days · 462 km

V Townsend Cromwell cruise 35

3 islands of the United States · Mar – Apr 1968

V Townsend Cromwell cruise 35, March – April 1968

165 specimens · 7 stops · 13 days · 583 km

M.G. Iltis

3 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1967

M.G. Iltis in Maui, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, July – August 1967

86 specimens · 5 stops · 12 days · 141 km

A.Y. Yoshinaga

4 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1967

A.Y. Yoshinaga across 4 islands of the United States, July – August 1967

64 specimens · 8 stops · 43 days · 555 km

G.W. Gillett

6 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1966

G.W. Gillett across 6 islands of the United States, May – July 1966

46 specimens · 12 stops · 66 days · 1,081 km

Seymour H. Sohmer

3 islands of the United States · Dec 1969 – Jan 1970

Seymour H. Sohmer in Hawaiʻi Island, Maui and Oʻahu, December 1969 – January 1970

67 specimens · 8 stops · 13 days · 136 km

Paul J. Struhsaker

3 islands of the United States · Nov – Dec 1968

Paul J. Struhsaker in Oʻahu, Molokaʻi and Maui, November – December 1968

105 specimens · 9 stops · 41 days · 573 km

Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss

7 islands · Jan – Mar 1960

Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 7 islands, January – March 1960

57 specimens · 7 stops · 58 days · 16,910 km

Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss

5 islands · Jan – Feb 1961

Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 5 islands, January – February 1961

49 specimens · 14 stops · 40 days · 5,401 km

V Townsend Cromwell cruise 33

3 islands of the United States · Oct – Nov 1967

V Townsend Cromwell cruise 33, October – November 1967

95 specimens · 10 stops · 20 days · 397 km

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3 islands of the United States · Oct – Nov 1967

station, October – November 1967

95 specimens · 10 stops · 20 days · 397 km

V.J. Krajina

3 islands of the United States · 11–21 Jun 1962

V.J. Krajina in Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, 11–21 June 1962

114 specimens · 2 stops · 11 days · 269 km

P.D. Ashlock

Maui · Mar – Apr 1966

P.D. Ashlock in Maui, March – April 1966

116 specimens · 4 stops · 27 days

Cranwell Smith

3 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1966

Cranwell Smith in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, May – July 1966

47 specimens · 6 stops · 39 days · 476 km

Larry W. Quate

Hawaiʻi Island and Maui · Mar – Apr 1961

Larry W. Quate in Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, March – April 1961

61 specimens · 14 stops · 43 days · 11,144 km

William J. Hoe

Maui and Molokaʻi · 25–29 Jan 1965

William J. Hoe in Maui and Molokaʻi, 25–29 January 1965

53 specimens · 5 stops · 5 days · 122 km

de Wreede

Oʻahu and Maui · 6–10 Aug 1967

de Wreede in Oʻahu and Maui, 6–10 August 1967

55 specimens · 4 stops · 5 days · 124 km

G.J. Hollenberg

5 islands of the United States · Apr – May 1965

G.J. Hollenberg across 5 islands of the United States, April – May 1965

51 specimens · 5 stops · 16 days · 192 km

How a journey is found

Every specimen with a full date (year, month and day; a bare “1 January” is treated as a missing day) and a named collector is a diary entry. For each collector the days are read in order, each day given the place most of its labels name. The place where a collector spent more than forty percent of their days, and at least sixty of them, is home: days there are left out.

A gap of more than 21 days between collecting days ends one journey and begins the next. A journey must run five to four hundred days, hold at least forty specimens and touch at least two places. Within it, consecutive days inside the same or a neighbouring tenth-of-a-degree cell (about eleven kilometres) are one stop; the stop’s point is the mean of its labels’ coordinates, or the island’s centre when none carry any.

Companions are collectors whose own labels put them in the same cell on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it, feature it or hide it; those words survive every rebuild. Everything else is read off the specimens and rebuilt by harvest.mjs expeditions as the records improve.