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, 1980 to 1988, 1,366 specimens between them.
7 collectors and expeditions99 days in the field27,855 km between stops1,022 photographed specimens
8 journeys match
Warren L. Wagner Jr.
5 islands of the United States · Feb – Apr 1988
Warren L. Wagner Jr. across 5 islands of the United States, February – April 1988306 specimens · 22 stops · 64 days · 933 km
Robert Hobdy
17 islands · Apr – Aug 1982
Robert Hobdy across 17 islands, April – August 1982250 specimens · 24 stops · 106 days · 16,977 km
Derral R. Herbst
5 islands · Feb – Apr 1988
Derral R. Herbst across 5 islands, February – April 1988201 specimens · 16 stops · 49 days · 7,903 km
C. Corn
3 islands of the United States · Mar – Apr 1980
C. Corn in Kahoʻolawe, Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, March – April 1980171 specimens · 5 stops · 30 days · 902 km
L.W. Cuddihy
Kahoʻolawe and Kauaʻi · 9–25 Apr 1980
L.W. Cuddihy in Kahoʻolawe and Kauaʻi, 9–25 April 1980142 specimens · 5 stops · 17 days · 434 km
G. Clarke
3 islands of the United States · 9–25 Apr 1980
G. Clarke in Kahoʻolawe, Kauaʻi and Maui, 9–25 April 1980125 specimens · 4 stops · 17 days · 403 km
W.P. Char
Kahoʻolawe · 21–25 Apr 1980
W.P. Char in Kahoʻolawe, 21–25 April 1980128 specimens · 3 stops · 5 days · 54 km
Robert Hobdy
3 islands of the United States · 11–20 Feb 1984
Robert Hobdy in Kahoʻolawe, Lānaʻi and Molokaʻi, 11–20 February 198443 specimens · 6 stops · 10 days · 249 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.