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. 8 journeys so far, 1923 to 2006, 5,784 specimens between them.
7 collectors and expeditions372 days in the field423,862 km between stops1,444 photographed specimens
8 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
56 islands · Apr – Nov 1946
F. Raymond Fosberg across 56 islands, April – November 19462,439 specimens · 102 stops · 209 days · 105,682 km
Johnson Randall
25 islands · Mar – Dec 1968
Johnson Randall across 25 islands, March – December 19681,676 specimens · 99 stops · 261 days · 106,577 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
6 islands of the United States · May – Sep 1923
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 6 islands of the United States, May – September 1923837 specimens · 23 stops · 122 days · 69,538 km
Maxwell S. Doty
11 islands · Sep 1953 – Aug 1954
Maxwell S. Doty across 11 islands, September 1953 – August 1954309 specimens · 40 stops · 315 days · 78,333 km
P.S. Vroom
7 islands of the U.S. Outlying Islands · 18–31 Jan 2006
P.S. Vroom across 7 islands of the U.S. Outlying Islands, 18–31 January 2006289 specimens · 5 stops · 14 days · 2,146 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
5 islands of the Marshall Islands · Jul – Aug 1944
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 5 islands of the Marshall Islands, July – August 194496 specimens · 21 stops · 32 days · 35,937 km
J.B. Pollock
6 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1923
J.B. Pollock across 6 islands of the United States, July – August 192378 specimens · 10 stops · 35 days · 23,475 km
Tanager Expedition
10 islands of the United States · Apr – Jun 1923
Tanager Expedition, April – June 192360 specimens · 8 stops · 62 days · 2,174 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.