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. 11 journeys so far, 1980 to 1990, 2,701 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions157 days in the field56,835 km between stops1,149 photographed specimens
11 journeys match
Derral R. Herbst
4 islands · May – Jun 1984
Derral R. Herbst across 4 islands, May – June 1984431 specimens · 14 stops · 28 days
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands · Mar – Jun 1983
Derral R. Herbst in Guam, Oʻahu and Maui, March – June 1983435 specimens · 21 stops · 80 days · 24,826 km
Derral R. Herbst
10 islands · Jun – Jul 1980
Derral R. Herbst across 10 islands, June – July 1980210 specimens · 14 stops · 48 days · 1,684 km
Derral R. Herbst
8 islands · Jun – Jul 1988
Derral R. Herbst across 8 islands, June – July 1988379 specimens · 14 stops · 29 days · 1,696 km
Derral R. Herbst
8 islands · Feb – Mar 1984
Derral R. Herbst across 8 islands, February – March 1984370 specimens · 9 stops · 18 days · 1,158 km
Derral R. Herbst
4 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands · Apr – May 1982
Derral R. Herbst across 4 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands, April – May 1982289 specimens · 15 stops · 24 days · 17,156 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
Derral R. Herbst
10 islands · 1–25 Sep 1988
Derral R. Herbst across 10 islands, 1–25 September 1988174 specimens · 13 stops · 25 days
Derral R. Herbst
Oʻahu · Dec 1989 – Mar 1990
Derral R. Herbst in Oʻahu, December 1989 – March 199067 specimens · 13 stops · 78 days · 253 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
Derral R. Herbst
Palmyra Atoll · 1–24 Sep 1987
Derral R. Herbst in Palmyra Atoll, 1–24 September 198757 specimens · 6 stops · 24 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.