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. 4 journeys so far, 1940 to 1981, 589 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions51 days in the field246 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens4 journeys match
C. McMillan
New Caledonia and Grande-Terre · Jun – Aug 1952
C. McMillan in New Caledonia and Grande-Terre, June – August 1952199 specimens · 26 stops · 52 days
Lynette Williams
3 islands of New Caledonia · Aug – Sep 1940
Lynette Williams in New Caledonia, Grande-Terre and Grande Terre, August – September 1940126 specimens · 8 stops · 42 days
D. Mueller-Dombois
3 islands of New Caledonia · 6–19 Aug 1981
D. Mueller-Dombois in New Caledonia, Grande-Terre and Isle Of Pines, 6–19 August 1981199 specimens · 10 stops · 14 days
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Grande-Terre and New Caledonia · Jun – Aug 1949
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Grande-Terre and New Caledonia, June – August 194965 specimens · 5 stops · 36 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.