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. 42 journeys so far, 1980 to 1989, 6,894 specimens between them.
30 collectors and expeditions795 days in the field107,764 km between stops4,768 photographed specimens
42 journeys match
A.K. Sakai
3 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1985
A.K. Sakai in Hawaiʻi Island, Lānaʻi and Maui, June – July 198570 specimens · 9 stops · 14 days · 289 km
R.L. Stemmermann
Hawaiʻi Island and Maui · Mar – Jul 1980
R.L. Stemmermann in Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, March – July 198041 specimens · 18 stops · 132 days · 766 km
R.L. Stemmermann
Hawaiʻi Island and Maui · 7–28 Apr 1984
R.L. Stemmermann in Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, 7–28 April 198491 specimens · 4 stops · 22 days
C.A. Russell
Maui · Feb – Mar 1984
C.A. Russell in Maui, February – March 198482 specimens · 6 stops · 16 days · 16 km
Warren L. Wagner Jr.
3 islands of the United States · Oct – Dec 1984
Warren L. Wagner Jr. in Maui, Oʻahu and Molokaʻi, October – December 198455 specimens · 7 stops · 57 days · 194 km
Isabelle Abbott
Maui · 1–27 Jul 1984
Isabelle Abbott in Maui, 1–27 July 198451 specimens · 6 stops · 27 days · 315 km
U. Eliasson
3 islands of the United States · Jan – Apr 1988
U. Eliasson in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, January – April 198853 specimens · 21 stops · 97 days · 690 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands of the United States · 7–13 Dec 1980
Derral R. Herbst in Maui, Oʻahu and Pearl and Hermes Atoll, 7–13 December 198088 specimens · 6 stops · 7 days · 2,159 km
Wayne C. Gagne
Hawaiʻi Island and Maui · Jun – Aug 1980
Wayne C. Gagne in Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, June – August 198051 specimens · 14 stops · 65 days · 122 km
Warren L. Wagner Jr.
Maui and Oʻahu · 14–22 Jan 1983
Warren L. Wagner Jr. in Maui and Oʻahu, 14–22 January 198361 specimens · 3 stops · 9 days · 129 km
Jr.William Ellsworth Fisher Jr.
Oʻahu and Maui · Sep – Oct 1982
Jr.William Ellsworth Fisher Jr. in Oʻahu and Maui, September – October 198279 specimens · 3 stops · 47 days · 313 km
Wayne C. Gagne
Maui · Nov 1980 – Jan 1981
Wayne C. Gagne in Maui, November 1980 – January 198145 specimens · 13 stops · 69 days
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W.H. Magruder
Kauaʻi and Maui · Dec 1988 – Jan 1989
W.H. Magruder in Kauaʻi and Maui, December 1988 – January 1989105 specimens · 3 stops · 13 days · 350 km
G.M.N. Wong
4 islands of the United States · Dec 1984 – Jan 1985
G.M.N. Wong across 4 islands of the United States, December 1984 – January 198555 specimens · 8 stops · 21 days · 417 km
Timothy Flynn
Hawaiʻi Island and Maui · 24–28 Jul 1983
Timothy Flynn in Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, 24–28 July 198344 specimens · 4 stops · 5 days
Timothy Flynn
3 islands · Oct – Nov 1989
Timothy Flynn in Upolu, Savaii and Maui, October – November 198943 specimens · 7 stops · 13 days · 4,300 km
Betsy H. Gagne
Maui · Feb – Mar 1984
Betsy H. Gagne in Maui, February – March 198463 specimens · 3 stops · 13 days
W.H. Magruder
Molokaʻi and Maui · Jul – Aug 1988
W.H. Magruder in Molokaʻi and Maui, July – August 198867 specimens · 2 stops · 14 days · 62 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.