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. 6 journeys so far, 1975 to 1978, 2,661 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions207 days in the field36,597 km between stops
6 journeys match
Johnson Randall
12 islands · Jun – Sep 1978
Johnson Randall across 12 islands, June – September 1978840 specimens · 52 stops · 92 days · 8,104 km
G.W. Tribble
13 islands · Jun – Sep 1978
G.W. Tribble across 13 islands, June – September 1978673 specimens · 44 stops · 92 days · 7,509 km
R.P.H. Rutherford
11 islands · Jun – Sep 1978
R.P.H. Rutherford across 11 islands, June – September 1978489 specimens · 27 stops · 91 days · 6,285 km
Johnson Randall
10 islands · May – Jul 1975
Johnson Randall across 10 islands, May – July 1975457 specimens · 30 stops · 79 days · 14,699 km
Lucius G. Eldredge III
Taiwan · 3–13 Jul 1978
Lucius G. Eldredge III in Taiwan, 3–13 July 1978108 specimens · 5 stops · 11 days
Richard H. Randall
Taiwan · Jun – Jul 1978
Richard H. Randall in Taiwan, June – July 197894 specimens · 2 stops · 15 days
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.