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. 5 journeys so far, 1966 to 1971, 1,567 specimens between them.
4 collectors and expeditions98 days in the field57,314 km between stops1,297 photographed specimens
5 journeys match
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
Maxwell S. Doty
32 islands · Jun – Aug 1966
Maxwell S. Doty across 32 islands, June – August 1966360 specimens · 19 stops · 92 days · 24,280 km
L.E. Hair
25 islands · Jun – Aug 1966
L.E. Hair across 25 islands, June – August 1966263 specimens · 10 stops · 73 days · 5,300 km
Gavino Trono Jr
19 islands of the Philippines · Jun – Jul 1971
Gavino Trono Jr across 19 islands of the Philippines, June – July 1971148 specimens · 10 stops · 50 days
G.A. Santos
8 islands of the Philippines · Jul – Sep 1971
G.A. Santos across 8 islands of the Philippines, July – September 197159 specimens · 14 stops · 71 days · 2,580 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.