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. 7 journeys so far, 1963 to 1970, 1,510 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions228 days in the field10,780 km between stops1,351 photographed specimens
7 journeys match
Derral R. Herbst
7 islands of the United States · Jan – Sep 1968
Derral R. Herbst across 7 islands of the United States, January – September 1968615 specimens · 67 stops · 243 days · 5,686 km
Derral R. Herbst
Oʻahu and Maui · Aug 1967 – Jan 1968
Derral R. Herbst in Oʻahu and Maui, August 1967 – January 1968373 specimens · 66 stops · 150 days · 1,963 km
Derral R. Herbst
Oʻahu and Kauaʻi · Feb – Jun 1966
Derral R. Herbst in Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, February – June 1966143 specimens · 23 stops · 124 days · 935 km
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
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
Derral R. Herbst
Aug – Sep 1963
Derral R. Herbst, August – September 196375 specimens · 5 stops · 24 days · 80 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands of the United States · Dec 1969 – Feb 1970
Derral R. Herbst in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, December 1969 – February 197040 specimens · 15 stops · 84 days · 1,198 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.