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. 1,954 journeys so far, 1874 to 2026, 349,432 specimens between them.
830 collectors and expeditions34,320 days in the field7,297,183 km between stops244,553 photographed specimens
1,954 journeys match
Edward Philpott Mumford
8 islands of French Polynesia · Aug – Dec 1929
Edward Philpott Mumford across 8 islands of French Polynesia, August – December 1929774 specimens · 26 stops · 140 days · 795 km
Alastair M. Adamson
9 islands of French Polynesia · Aug – Dec 1929
Alastair M. Adamson across 9 islands of French Polynesia, August – December 1929765 specimens · 27 stops · 140 days · 759 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
9 islands · May – Jul 1952
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 9 islands, May – July 1952877 specimens · 23 stops · 74 days · 18,027 km
Samuel Wight
16 islands of French Polynesia · May – Oct 1934
Samuel Wight across 16 islands of French Polynesia, May – October 1934733 specimens · 24 stops · 156 days · 7,021 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of the United States · Jun – Oct 1927
Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, June – October 1927581 specimens · 60 stops · 136 days · 1,266 km
Maxwell S. Doty
16 islands · Aug – Dec 1971
Maxwell S. Doty across 16 islands, August – December 1971737 specimens · 34 stops · 101 days · 25,154 km
K.N. Page
16 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands · Sep – Nov 2005
K.N. Page across 16 islands of the Northern Mariana Islands, September – November 20051,365 specimens · 20 stops · 69 days · 37,880 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of the United States · Dec 1951 – Apr 1952
Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, December 1951 – April 1952648 specimens · 45 stops · 108 days · 1,141 km
Albert C. Smith
10 islands · Mar – Aug 1953
Albert C. Smith across 10 islands, March – August 1953869 specimens · 33 stops · 154 days · 15,233 km
Harold St.John
5 islands · Sep 1930 – May 1931
Harold St.John across 5 islands, September 1930 – May 1931545 specimens · 46 stops · 258 days · 10,194 km
E.P. Hume
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1931
E.P. Hume in Savaii, Tutuila and Upolu, June – September 1931761 specimens · 47 stops · 92 days · 225 km
John Colburn Bridwell
Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island · Jan – Aug 1917
John Colburn Bridwell in Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, January – August 1917831 specimens · 28 stops · 193 days · 1,209 km
Harold St.John
9 islands · Jun – Nov 1938
Harold St.John across 9 islands, June – November 19381,315 specimens · 9 stops · 172 days · 5,917 km
Martin L. Grant
8 islands of French Polynesia · Nov 1930 – Feb 1931
Martin L. Grant across 8 islands of French Polynesia, November 1930 – February 1931822 specimens · 31 stops · 90 days · 1,081 km
Seymour H. Sohmer
Sri Lanka and Pahang · Sep – Dec 1973
Seymour H. Sohmer in Sri Lanka and Pahang, September – December 1973672 specimens · 28 stops · 94 days
Truman George Yuncker
Niue Island and Niue · Jan – Feb 1940
Truman George Yuncker in Niue Island and Niue, January – February 1940839 specimens · 37 stops · 48 days · 54 km
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
4 islands · Feb – Sep 1929
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 4 islands, February – September 1929605 specimens · 77 stops · 205 days · 5,048 km
Ernest H. Quayle
25 islands · Jun – Nov 1922
Ernest H. Quayle across 25 islands, June – November 1922642 specimens · 56 stops · 162 days · 7,539 km
Gerrit Parmele Wilder
3 islands of the United States · Jul 1930 – Jun 1931
Gerrit Parmele Wilder in Oʻahu, Laysan and Molokaʻi, July 1930 – June 1931435 specimens · 74 stops · 343 days · 5,041 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
21 islands · Nov 1951 – Apr 1952
F. Raymond Fosberg across 21 islands, November 1951 – April 1952672 specimens · 57 stops · 145 days · 13,644 km
Donald Anderson
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · 7–31 Dec 1937
Donald Anderson in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, 7–31 December 19371,115 specimens · 8 stops · 25 days · 391 km
M.A. Evans
13 islands · Nov 1965 – May 1966
M.A. Evans across 13 islands, November 1965 – May 1966591 specimens · 63 stops · 208 days · 85,825 km
M. Jacobs
New Guinea and Selangor · Aug – Dec 1973
M. Jacobs in New Guinea and Selangor, August – December 1973852 specimens · 11 stops · 105 days · 2,363 km
Otto Degener
6 islands of the United States · Apr – Sep 1949
Otto Degener across 6 islands of the United States, April – September 1949517 specimens · 50 stops · 133 days · 1,742 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.