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. 17 journeys so far, 1971 to 1979, 2,871 specimens between them.
17 collectors and expeditions430 days in the field70,745 km between stops2,428 photographed specimens
17 journeys match
M. Jacobs
New Guinea and Selangor · Aug – Dec 1973
M. Jacobs in New Guinea and Selangor, August – December 1973852 specimens · 11 stops · 105 days · 2,363 km
J.M. Powell
6 islands · Apr – Jul 1972
J.M. Powell across 6 islands, April – July 1972377 specimens · 34 stops · 109 days · 11,538 km
Benjamin C. Stone
7 islands · Mar – Sep 1971
Benjamin C. Stone across 7 islands, March – September 1971236 specimens · 43 stops · 182 days · 10,793 km
Seymour H. Sohmer
5 islands of Papua New Guinea · Mar – Jun 1979
Seymour H. Sohmer across 5 islands of Papua New Guinea, March – June 1979294 specimens · 22 stops · 106 days · 3,435 km
Mary E. Fallen
New Guinea and New Caledonia · Jun – Aug 1977
Mary E. Fallen in New Guinea and New Caledonia, June – August 1977154 specimens · 10 stops · 55 days · 4,150 km
G.J. Leach
New Guinea · May – Aug 1972
G.J. Leach in New Guinea, May – August 1972127 specimens · 9 stops · 75 days · 1,995 km
A. Gebo
New Guinea and Papua · Jun – Jul 1972
A. Gebo in New Guinea and Papua, June – July 1972118 specimens · 11 stops · 15 days · 569 km
William Robert Barker
New Guinea · Mar – May 1975
William Robert Barker in New Guinea, March – May 1975138 specimens · 3 stops · 82 days · 706 km
L.A.C. Craven
New Guinea · Jun – Jul 1974
L.A.C. Craven in New Guinea, June – July 1974139 specimens · 3 stops · 29 days · 14,137 km
George Pattison
6 islands of Papua New Guinea · Sep – Dec 1975
George Pattison across 6 islands of Papua New Guinea, September – December 197568 specimens · 13 stops · 71 days · 5,279 km
J.J. Wood
6 islands of Papua New Guinea · Sep – Dec 1975
J.J. Wood across 6 islands of Papua New Guinea, September – December 197567 specimens · 13 stops · 71 days · 5,279 km
R.C. Phillips
4 islands · Jun – Jul 1973
R.C. Phillips across 4 islands, June – July 197355 specimens · 4 stops · 26 days · 4,659 km
B.J. Conn
3 islands of Papua New Guinea · Sep – Oct 1974
B.J. Conn in Umboi Island, New Guinea and Umboi, September – October 197445 specimens · 4 stops · 52 days · 516 km
K.Q. Damas
4 islands of Papua New Guinea · 1–29 Mar 1979
K.Q. Damas across 4 islands of Papua New Guinea, 1–29 March 197950 specimens · 4 stops · 29 days · 258 km
Donald P. Abbott
4 islands · Jun – Jul 1973
Donald P. Abbott across 4 islands, June – July 197349 specimens · 4 stops · 26 days · 4,659 km
T. Umba
New Guinea · Mar – May 1975
T. Umba in New Guinea, March – May 197561 specimens · 2 stops · 45 days · 353 km
K. Taho
New Guinea · Aug – Sep 1973
K. Taho in New Guinea, August – September 197341 specimens · 2 stops · 7 days · 56 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.