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. 3 journeys so far, 1992 to 1993, 191 specimens between them.
3 collectors and expeditions30 days in the field162 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Alvarez
Leyte · 8–22 Aug 1992
Alvarez in Leyte, 8–22 August 199284 specimens · 14 stops · 15 days
Romero
Leyte · Feb – Mar 1993
Romero in Leyte, February – March 199366 specimens · 7 stops · 34 days
E.B. Barbon
Luzon and Leyte · Oct – Nov 1992
E.B. Barbon in Luzon and Leyte, October – November 199241 specimens · 5 stops · 35 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.