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
R.L. Wilbur
3 islands of the United States · Nov 1947 – Apr 1948
R.L. Wilbur in Kauaʻi, Molokaʻi and Oʻahu, November 1947 – April 1948420 specimens · 33 stops · 176 days · 1,115 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
13 islands · Jun – Sep 1980
F. Raymond Fosberg across 13 islands, June – September 1980538 specimens · 66 stops · 98 days · 125,697 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
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Maui and Oʻahu · Feb – Jul 1920
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Maui and Oʻahu, February – July 1920658 specimens · 47 stops · 176 days · 1,222 km
Steven Perlman
7 islands · May – Aug 1988
Steven Perlman across 7 islands, May – August 1988739 specimens · 31 stops · 95 days · 11,103 km
Derral R. Herbst
5 islands of the United States · Feb – Oct 1975
Derral R. Herbst across 5 islands of the United States, February – October 1975345 specimens · 58 stops · 242 days · 4,870 km
Wood Jones
22 islands · Jul – Dec 1922
Wood Jones across 22 islands, July – December 1922478 specimens · 45 stops · 142 days · 3,823 km
T. Hosokawa
17 islands · Jul – Nov 1933
T. Hosokawa across 17 islands, July – November 1933500 specimens · 50 stops · 137 days · 17,296 km
S.A. He
New Guinea · 1–23 Feb 2013
S.A. He in New Guinea, 1–23 February 2013688 specimens · 12 stops · 23 days · 4,056 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
8 islands · Jul – Oct 1934
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 8 islands, July – October 1934620 specimens · 10 stops · 91 days · 1,948 km
Charles N. Forbes
3 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1911
Charles N. Forbes in Hawaiʻi Island, Oʻahu and Maui, June – August 1911448 specimens · 34 stops · 70 days · 919 km
M.M. Fleischer
13 islands · Feb – Jun 1903
M.M. Fleischer across 13 islands, February – June 1903411 specimens · 33 stops · 113 days · 52,279 km
H.A. Miller
26 islands · Jun – Aug 1960
H.A. Miller across 26 islands, June – August 1960410 specimens · 37 stops · 90 days · 20,099 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
4 islands · May – Aug 1940
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 4 islands, May – August 1940616 specimens · 10 stops · 86 days · 181 km
Charles N. Forbes
3 islands of the United States · Feb – Jun 1910
Charles N. Forbes in Maui, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, February – June 1910446 specimens · 29 stops · 120 days · 1,746 km
Charles N. Forbes
5 islands of the United States · Sep – Dec 1916
Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, September – December 1916451 specimens · 23 stops · 106 days · 1,301 km
Sydney Glassman
8 islands · Jun – Sep 1949
Sydney Glassman across 8 islands, June – September 1949524 specimens · 41 stops · 82 days · 1,957 km
Harold St.John
13 islands · Jul – Nov 1946
Harold St.John across 13 islands, July – November 1946590 specimens · 27 stops · 120 days · 9,900 km
Truman George Yuncker
6 islands · Sep – Dec 1939
Truman George Yuncker across 6 islands, September – December 1939573 specimens · 26 stops · 81 days · 2,624 km
Charles N. Forbes
5 islands of the United States · Jan – Jun 1912
Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, January – June 1912459 specimens · 19 stops · 151 days · 981 km
Sh. Tawada
4 islands of Japan · Jun – Sep 1951
Sh. Tawada across 4 islands of Japan, June – September 1951345 specimens · 53 stops · 113 days
J.S. Burley
4 islands · May – Jul 1989
J.S. Burley across 4 islands, May – July 1989478 specimens · 22 stops · 63 days · 30,615 km
Marshall R. Crosby
5 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1964
Marshall R. Crosby across 5 islands of the United States, June – August 1964461 specimens · 21 stops · 83 days · 2,429 km
E.H. Walker
4 islands of Japan · Jun – Sep 1951
E.H. Walker across 4 islands of Japan, June – September 1951340 specimens · 53 stops · 113 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.