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, 1981 to 1986, 368 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions25 days in the field2,578 km between stops84 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens4 journeys match
Johnson Randall
4 islands · May – Jun 1981
Johnson Randall across 4 islands, May – June 1981142 specimens · 7 stops · 14 days · 913 km
E.J. Reynoso
Palawan and Cebu · Jul – Aug 1986
E.J. Reynoso in Palawan and Cebu, July – August 198689 specimens · 3 stops · 27 days · 567 km
Mike Gawel
3 islands · May – Jun 1981
Mike Gawel in Negros Island, Cebu and Luzon, May – June 198186 specimens · 4 stops · 11 days · 913 km
K.E. Carpenter
3 islands · May – Jul 1981
K.E. Carpenter in Cebu, Philippines and Negros Island, May – July 198151 specimens · 8 stops · 36 days · 185 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.