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. 12 journeys so far, 1991 to 1994, 1,238 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions166 days in the field4,506 km between stops1,135 photographed specimens
12 journeys match
E.J. Reynoso
Palawan and Coron · May – Jun 1993
E.J. Reynoso in Palawan and Coron, May – June 1993203 specimens · 13 stops · 35 days · 1,515 km
E.J. Reynoso
Luzon and Sibuyan · Jan – Feb 1994
E.J. Reynoso in Luzon and Sibuyan, January – February 1994182 specimens · 16 stops · 41 days
E.J. Reynoso
3 islands of the Philippines · Jan – Feb 1992
E.J. Reynoso in Luzon, Visayas and Sibuyan, January – February 1992119 specimens · 8 stops · 28 days
E.J. Reynoso
Visayas and Visayan · Oct – Nov 1992
E.J. Reynoso in Visayas and Visayan, October – November 199291 specimens · 11 stops · 33 days
E.J. Reynoso
Negros · 18–29 May 1991
E.J. Reynoso in Negros, 18–29 May 1991103 specimens · 10 stops · 12 days
E.J. Reynoso
Luzon · 6–17 Sep 1991
E.J. Reynoso in Luzon, 6–17 September 199186 specimens · 8 stops · 12 days
E.J. Reynoso
Bohol and Cebu · Mar – Apr 1993
E.J. Reynoso in Bohol and Cebu, March – April 1993157 specimens · 2 stops · 14 days · 77 km
E.J. Reynoso
3 islands of the Philippines · May – Jun 1992
E.J. Reynoso in Sibuyan, Luzon and Mindanao, May – June 199273 specimens · 7 stops · 32 days · 1,568 km
E.J. Reynoso
Palawan and Luzon · Jan – Feb 1991
E.J. Reynoso in Palawan and Luzon, January – February 199166 specimens · 10 stops · 15 days · 1,346 km
E.J. Reynoso
Luzon and Northern Luzon · Jul – Aug 1992
E.J. Reynoso in Luzon and Northern Luzon, July – August 199259 specimens · 14 stops · 17 days
E.J. Reynoso
Mindanao · 14–29 Mar 1992
E.J. Reynoso in Mindanao, 14–29 March 199252 specimens · 8 stops · 16 days
E.J. Reynoso
Luzon · Nov – Dec 1991
E.J. Reynoso in Luzon, November – December 199147 specimens · 5 stops · 26 days
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date (year, month and day; a bare “1 January” is treated as a missing day) and a named collector is a diary entry. For each collector the days are read in order, each day given the place most of its labels name. The place where a collector spent more than forty percent of their days, and at least sixty of them, is home: days there are left out.
A gap of more than 21 days between collecting days ends one journey and begins the next. A journey must run five to four hundred days, hold at least forty specimens and touch at least two places. Within it, consecutive days inside the same or a neighbouring tenth-of-a-degree cell (about eleven kilometres) are one stop; the stop’s point is the mean of its labels’ coordinates, or the island’s centre when none carry any.
Companions are collectors whose own labels put them in the same cell on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it, feature it or hide it; those words survive every rebuild. Everything else is read off the specimens and rebuilt by harvest.mjs expeditions as the records improve.