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. 8 journeys so far, 1970 to 1975, 1,952 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions261 days in the field37,718 km between stops1,739 photographed specimens
8 journeys match
Derral R. Herbst
12 islands · Dec 1971 – Aug 1972
Derral R. Herbst across 12 islands, December 1971 – August 1972634 specimens · 53 stops · 263 days · 25,096 km
Derral R. Herbst
5 islands of the United States · Feb – Oct 1975
Derral R. Herbst across 5 islands of the United States, February – October 1975345 specimens · 58 stops · 242 days · 4,870 km
Derral R. Herbst
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Nov 1971
Derral R. Herbst across 4 islands of the United States, June – November 1971289 specimens · 38 stops · 153 days · 2,219 km
Derral R. Herbst
5 islands · Aug – Dec 1974
Derral R. Herbst across 5 islands, August – December 1974178 specimens · 27 stops · 126 days · 1,297 km
Derral R. Herbst
4 islands of the United States · Feb – May 1973
Derral R. Herbst across 4 islands of the United States, February – May 1973186 specimens · 22 stops · 93 days · 1,628 km
Derral R. Herbst
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1970
Derral R. Herbst across 4 islands of the United States, June – August 1970140 specimens · 25 stops · 72 days · 674 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1973
Derral R. Herbst in Maui, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, July – August 1973122 specimens · 12 stops · 44 days · 1,166 km
Derral R. Herbst
Kauaʻi and Maui · Nov 1972 – Feb 1973
Derral R. Herbst in Kauaʻi and Maui, November 1972 – February 197358 specimens · 11 stops · 79 days · 768 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.