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. 32 journeys so far, 1970 to 1979, 3,713 specimens between them.
18 collectors and expeditions560 days in the field55,720 km between stops2,815 photographed specimens
Islands
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Journeys with photographed specimens32 journeys match
Derral R. Herbst
5 islands of the United States · Jan – May 1976
Derral R. Herbst across 5 islands of the United States, January – May 1976285 specimens · 26 stops · 108 days · 1,983 km
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Steven L. Montgomery
3 islands of the United States · May – Sep 1979
Steven L. Montgomery in Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi Island and Lānaʻi, May – September 1979268 specimens · 35 stops · 100 days · 1,207 km
Elbert L. Little Jr.
6 islands of the United States · Aug – Sep 1976
Elbert L. Little Jr. across 6 islands of the United States, August – September 1976271 specimens · 23 stops · 52 days · 1,816 km
Paul K. Higashino
Hawaiʻi Island and Molokaʻi · Jun – Jul 1974
Paul K. Higashino in Hawaiʻi Island and Molokaʻi, June – July 1974290 specimens · 17 stops · 46 days · 517 km
R.L. Stemmermann
3 islands of the United States · May – Aug 1979
R.L. Stemmermann in Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, May – August 1979252 specimens · 25 stops · 94 days · 1,167 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
Paul K. Higashino
Molokaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island · May – Aug 1979
Paul K. Higashino in Molokaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island, May – August 1979138 specimens · 22 stops · 72 days · 976 km
Paul K. Higashino
4 islands of the United States · Jan – May 1977
Paul K. Higashino across 4 islands of the United States, January – May 1977104 specimens · 19 stops · 118 days · 802 km
R.C. Gardner
6 islands of the United States · Jan – Feb 1974
R.C. Gardner across 6 islands of the United States, January – February 197489 specimens · 24 stops · 54 days · 1,081 km
B. Kimura
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1978
B. Kimura across 4 islands of the United States, June – August 197885 specimens · 15 stops · 50 days · 598 km
Kenneth M. Nagata
3 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1978
Kenneth M. Nagata in Hawaiʻi Island, Maui and Molokaʻi, June – August 197886 specimens · 15 stops · 44 days · 639 km
F.R. Warshauer
Molokaʻi and Maui · Jun – Jul 1979
F.R. Warshauer in Molokaʻi and Maui, June – July 1979108 specimens · 9 stops · 34 days · 18 km
J.D. Jacobi
Molokaʻi · Jun – Jul 1979
J.D. Jacobi in Molokaʻi, June – July 1979100 specimens · 10 stops · 50 days · 64 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands of the United States · Sep – Oct 1973
Derral R. Herbst in Lānaʻi, Oʻahu and Molokaʻi, September – October 197396 specimens · 9 stops · 30 days · 73 km
Kenneth M. Nagata
4 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1979
Kenneth M. Nagata across 4 islands of the United States, May – July 197980 specimens · 12 stops · 44 days · 1,220 km
R.L. Stemmermann
4 islands · Feb – Apr 1977
R.L. Stemmermann across 4 islands, February – April 197785 specimens · 13 stops · 62 days · 5,427 km
P.H. McEldowney
Molokaʻi · Jun – Jul 1979
P.H. McEldowney in Molokaʻi, June – July 197983 specimens · 9 stops · 34 days · 31 km
G.J. Spence
4 islands of the United States · Oct – Dec 1972
G.J. Spence across 4 islands of the United States, October – December 197255 specimens · 15 stops · 75 days · 1,315 km
G.J. Spence
Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi · Mar – Apr 1976
G.J. Spence in Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi, March – April 197697 specimens · 5 stops · 25 days · 166 km
Paul K. Higashino
4 islands of the United States · Feb – Mar 1975
Paul K. Higashino across 4 islands of the United States, February – March 197586 specimens · 11 stops · 51 days · 498 km
R.C. Gardner
6 islands · Jan – Mar 1975
R.C. Gardner across 6 islands, January – March 197549 specimens · 15 stops · 54 days · 18,774 km
R.L. Stemmermann
5 islands · Nov – Dec 1979
R.L. Stemmermann across 5 islands, November – December 197978 specimens · 10 stops · 34 days · 5,655 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.