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. 95 journeys so far, 1960 to 1970, 19,380 specimens between them.
55 collectors and expeditions2,010 days in the field641,359 km between stops11,325 photographed specimens
95 journeys match
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands of the United States · Feb – Jul 1967
Derral R. Herbst in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, February – July 1967135 specimens · 25 stops · 141 days · 459 km
Otto Degener
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1961
Otto Degener across 4 islands of the United States, June – July 1961153 specimens · 22 stops · 54 days · 560 km
Otto Degener
4 islands · Nov – Dec 1960
Otto Degener across 4 islands, November – December 1960150 specimens · 23 stops · 43 days · 12,274 km
Isa Degener
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1961
Isa Degener across 4 islands of the United States, June – July 1961147 specimens · 22 stops · 54 days · 560 km
Gerald R. Allen
5 islands · Jan – May 1969
Gerald R. Allen across 5 islands, January – May 1969248 specimens · 25 stops · 109 days · 10,864 km
Kazue Ozaki
Oʻahu · Oct – Dec 1963
Kazue Ozaki in Oʻahu, October – December 1963347 specimens · 9 stops · 75 days · 292 km
station
4 islands of the United States · Mar – May 1968
station, March – May 1968346 specimens · 11 stops · 41 days · 932 km
G.W. Gillett
3 islands of the United States · Jan – May 1964
G.W. Gillett in Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Maui, January – May 1964114 specimens · 22 stops · 121 days · 912 km
Derral R. Herbst
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · Jul – Sep 1966
Derral R. Herbst in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, July – September 1966129 specimens · 17 stops · 57 days · 459 km
van Royen
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1967
van Royen in Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Moorea, June – September 1967147 specimens · 11 stops · 80 days · 8,799 km
R. Gankin
3 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1968
R. Gankin in Hawaiʻi Island, Maui and Oʻahu, June – July 1968143 specimens · 12 stops · 50 days · 1,198 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
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Lānaʻi and Oʻahu · Feb – Apr 1961
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Lānaʻi and Oʻahu, February – April 1961141 specimens · 11 stops · 50 days · 429 km
station
3 islands of the United States · Nov – Dec 1968
station, November – December 1968344 specimens · 7 stops · 28 days · 298 km
V Townsend Cromwell cruise 40
3 islands of the United States · Nov – Dec 1968
V Townsend Cromwell cruise 40, November – December 1968344 specimens · 7 stops · 28 days · 298 km
Johnson Randall
3 islands of the United States · Oct – Dec 1967
Johnson Randall in Enewetak Atoll, Oʻahu and Tahiti, October – December 1967238 specimens · 14 stops · 40 days · 20,674 km
Isa Degener
4 islands · Nov – Dec 1960
Isa Degener across 4 islands, November – December 1960102 specimens · 20 stops · 40 days · 12,274 km
Benjamin C. Stone
11 islands · Dec 1964 – Feb 1965
Benjamin C. Stone across 11 islands, December 1964 – February 1965145 specimens · 14 stops · 51 days · 64,561 km
Pele Expedition 1961-1962
Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island · Feb – May 1962
Pele Expedition 1961-1962, February – May 196299 specimens · 10 stops · 99 days · 472 km
Benjamin C. Stone
3 islands · Aug – Sep 1961
Benjamin C. Stone in Kauaʻi, Oʻahu and New Caledonia, August – September 196194 specimens · 16 stops · 48 days · 15,390 km
C.H. Lamoureux
Maui and Oʻahu · 6–16 Aug 1967
C.H. Lamoureux in Maui and Oʻahu, 6–16 August 1967193 specimens · 4 stops · 11 days · 45 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
4 islands of the United States · 9–27 Mar 1961
F. Raymond Fosberg across 4 islands of the United States, 9–27 March 1961105 specimens · 15 stops · 19 days · 925 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 1963100 specimens · 18 stops · 41 days · 24,929 km
Otto Degener
Kauaʻi and Oʻahu · Feb – May 1961
Otto Degener in Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, February – May 196171 specimens · 15 stops · 76 days · 1,137 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.