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. 4 journeys so far, 1976 to 1978, 342 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions36 days in the field2,550 km between stops313 photographed specimens
4 journeys match
Derral R. Herbst
6 islands of the United States · Jul – Sep 1978
Derral R. Herbst across 6 islands of the United States, July – September 197897 specimens · 10 stops · 65 days · 2,116 km
C. Corn
Oʻahu and Kahoʻolawe · Jan – Mar 1978
C. Corn in Oʻahu and Kahoʻolawe, January – March 1978109 specimens · 6 stops · 82 days · 283 km
Paul K. Higashino
Oʻahu and Kahoʻolawe · Oct – Nov 1976
Paul K. Higashino in Oʻahu and Kahoʻolawe, October – November 197667 specimens · 5 stops · 28 days · 151 km
W.P. Char
Kahoʻolawe and Hawaiʻi Island · 21–26 Nov 1978
W.P. Char in Kahoʻolawe and Hawaiʻi Island, 21–26 November 197869 specimens · 6 stops · 6 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.