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. 6 journeys so far, 1981 to 1987, 895 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions63 days in the field11,178 km between stops612 photographed specimens
6 journeys match
J.S. Burley
3 islands of the Philippines · Mar – Apr 1987
J.S. Burley in Luzon, Mindoro and Mindoro Oriental, March – April 1987366 specimens · 13 stops · 39 days · 3,461 km
J.S. Burley
3 islands · Sep – Oct 1987
J.S. Burley in Borneo, Sarawak and Luzon, September – October 1987141 specimens · 15 stops · 45 days · 5,605 km
Seymour H. Sohmer
6 islands of the Philippines · Oct – Nov 1985
Seymour H. Sohmer across 6 islands of the Philippines, October – November 198579 specimens · 6 stops · 12 days · 286 km
Johnson Randall
4 islands · May – Jun 1981
Johnson Randall across 4 islands, May – June 1981142 specimens · 7 stops · 14 days · 913 km
Seymour H. Sohmer
Luzon and Quezon · 9–14 Feb 1985
Seymour H. Sohmer in Luzon and Quezon, 9–14 February 198581 specimens · 5 stops · 6 days
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
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.