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, 1991 to 1992, 196 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions35 days in the field1,302 km between stops169 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Benjamin C. Stone
Mindoro · Mar – Apr 1991
Benjamin C. Stone in Mindoro, March – April 199199 specimens · 13 stops · 21 days
Fuentes
3 islands of the Philippines · Apr – May 1991
Fuentes in Negros, Mindoro and Mindanao, April – May 199154 specimens · 9 stops · 49 days · 689 km
Benjamin C. Stone
4 islands of the Philippines · Nov 1991 – Feb 1992
Benjamin C. Stone across 4 islands of the Philippines, November 1991 – February 199243 specimens · 11 stops · 77 days · 613 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.