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. 5 journeys so far, 1980 to 1987, 633 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions86 days in the field284 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
Johnson Randall
14 islands · Jan – Apr 1980
Johnson Randall across 14 islands, January – April 1980346 specimens · 38 stops · 101 days
A.M. Greller
Sri Lanka · 11–29 Aug 1984
A.M. Greller in Sri Lanka, 11–29 August 198494 specimens · 6 stops · 19 days
S. Balasubramaniam
Sri Lanka · 11–29 Aug 1984
S. Balasubramaniam in Sri Lanka, 11–29 August 198492 specimens · 6 stops · 19 days
I. Adachi
Sri Lanka · Feb – Mar 1987
I. Adachi in Sri Lanka, February – March 198758 specimens · 11 stops · 16 days
S. Balasubramaniam
Sri Lanka · Mar – Apr 1985
S. Balasubramaniam in Sri Lanka, March – April 198543 specimens · 8 stops · 29 days
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.