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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. 13 journeys so far, 1948 to 1982, 1,147 specimens between them.

1 collectors and expeditions212 days in the field166,979 km between stops545 photographed specimens

Maxwell S. Doty

11 islands · Sep 1953 – Aug 1954

Maxwell S. Doty across 11 islands, September 1953 – August 1954

309 specimens · 40 stops · 315 days · 78,333 km

Maxwell S. Doty

5 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1948

Maxwell S. Doty across 5 islands of the United States, June – August 1948

74 specimens · 22 stops · 82 days

Maxwell S. Doty

5 islands · Jun – Oct 1959

Maxwell S. Doty across 5 islands, June – October 1959

110 specimens · 16 stops · 108 days · 14,276 km

Maxwell S. Doty

3 islands of the United States · Mar – May 1965

Maxwell S. Doty in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, March – May 1965

99 specimens · 11 stops · 79 days · 1,350 km

Maxwell S. Doty

6 islands · Nov 1975 – Mar 1976

Maxwell S. Doty across 6 islands, November 1975 – March 1976

61 specimens · 13 stops · 131 days · 16,972 km

Maxwell S. Doty

4 islands of the United States · Oct – Dec 1955

Maxwell S. Doty across 4 islands of the United States, October – December 1955

78 specimens · 10 stops · 80 days · 1,239 km

Maxwell S. Doty

5 islands · Jan – May 1959

Maxwell S. Doty across 5 islands, January – May 1959

70 specimens · 17 stops · 110 days · 10,865 km

Maxwell S. Doty

7 islands · May – Jun 1973

Maxwell S. Doty across 7 islands, May – June 1973

66 specimens · 9 stops · 60 days · 36,912 km

Maxwell S. Doty

Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · Aug – Dec 1956

Maxwell S. Doty in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, August – December 1956

64 specimens · 9 stops · 118 days · 1,647 km

Maxwell S. Doty

3 islands · Feb – Jul 1982

Maxwell S. Doty in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Mwand Peidak, February – July 1982

74 specimens · 9 stops · 147 days · 780 km

Maxwell S. Doty

4 islands of the United States · Dec 1954 – Jan 1955

Maxwell S. Doty across 4 islands of the United States, December 1954 – January 1955

54 specimens · 5 stops · 16 days · 464 km

Maxwell S. Doty

3 islands of the United States · Dec 1959 – Jan 1960

Maxwell S. Doty in Hawaiʻi Island, Palmyra Atoll and Oʻahu, December 1959 – January 1960

46 specimens · 9 stops · 24 days · 3,977 km

Maxwell S. Doty

Oʻahu · Mar – Apr 1960

Maxwell S. Doty in Oʻahu, March – April 1960

42 specimens · 5 stops · 19 days · 164 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.