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. 43 journeys so far, 1912 to 1984, 11,310 specimens between them.
24 collectors and expeditions890 days in the field45,357 km between stops5,953 photographed specimens
43 journeys match
Charles N. Forbes
5 islands of the United States · Jun – Dec 1917
Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, June – December 19171,777 specimens · 29 stops · 163 days · 2,815 km
Charles N. Forbes
3 islands of the United States · Mar – Jul 1920
Charles N. Forbes in Maui, Oʻahu and Lānaʻi, March – July 19201,158 specimens · 58 stops · 128 days · 1,111 km
Charles N. Forbes
6 islands of the United States · Jun – Sep 1919
Charles N. Forbes across 6 islands of the United States, June – September 19191,048 specimens · 28 stops · 88 days · 422 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
Harold St.John
Maui and Oʻahu · Aug – Nov 1945
Harold St.John in Maui and Oʻahu, August – November 1945369 specimens · 21 stops · 107 days · 649 km
Walter M. Giffard
Maui and Hawaiʻi Island · May – Aug 1918
Walter M. Giffard in Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, May – August 1918593 specimens · 33 stops · 110 days · 136 km



Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Kauaʻi and Maui · Jun – Aug 1937
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Kauaʻi and Maui, June – August 1937575 specimens · 25 stops · 78 days · 481 km



Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
3 islands · Jul – Aug 1946
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Chichi-Jima, July – August 1946326 specimens · 23 stops · 54 days · 465 km
A.L.M. Mitchell
Maui and Oʻahu · Jul – Sep 1945
A.L.M. Mitchell in Maui and Oʻahu, July – September 1945333 specimens · 17 stops · 63 days · 423 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
4 islands · Jun – Sep 1936
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 4 islands, June – September 1936232 specimens · 37 stops · 84 days · 4 km


Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Oʻahu and Maui · Dec 1928 – Feb 1929
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Oʻahu and Maui, December 1928 – February 1929244 specimens · 12 stops · 88 days · 650 km
Wayne C. Gagne
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Nov 1970
Wayne C. Gagne across 4 islands of the United States, January – November 1970150 specimens · 60 stops · 305 days · 3,577 km


Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Oʻahu and Maui · Sep 1919 – Jan 1920
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Oʻahu and Maui, September 1919 – January 1920201 specimens · 28 stops · 133 days · 556 km
Otto Herman Swezey
Maui · Jul – Nov 1918
Otto Herman Swezey in Maui, July – November 1918300 specimens · 17 stops · 120 days



Philip Hunter Timberlake
Maui and Hawaiʻi Island · Jul – Aug 1919
Philip Hunter Timberlake in Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, July – August 1919229 specimens · 22 stops · 51 days · 448 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
Hawaiʻi Island and Maui · May – Jun 1938
Edward Yataro Hosaka in Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, May – June 1938174 specimens · 15 stops · 26 days · 58 km



Owen Bryant
Maui · Feb – Apr 1932
Owen Bryant in Maui, February – April 1932216 specimens · 15 stops · 62 days
Joseph F. Rock
3 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1912
Joseph F. Rock in Hawaiʻi Island, Maui and Oʻahu, January – March 1912133 specimens · 13 stops · 71 days · 136 km

Otto Herman Swezey
4 islands of the United States · Jul – Oct 1921
Otto Herman Swezey across 4 islands of the United States, July – October 1921185 specimens · 22 stops · 99 days · 1,113 km
Joseph F. Rock
3 islands of the United States · Jul – Sep 1918
Joseph F. Rock in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Molokaʻi, July – September 1918168 specimens · 8 stops · 67 days · 409 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
Maui and Hawaiʻi Island · Jan – Feb 1937
Edward Yataro Hosaka in Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, January – February 1937114 specimens · 14 stops · 28 days · 447 km
G.R. Ewart III
Maui and Oʻahu · Dec 1928 – Jan 1929
G.R. Ewart III in Maui and Oʻahu, December 1928 – January 1929136 specimens · 7 stops · 38 days · 247 km



Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
4 islands of the United States · Oct – Dec 1947
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 4 islands of the United States, October – December 1947188 specimens · 15 stops · 40 days · 52 km
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
Maui · Mar – May 1967
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss in Maui, March – May 196796 specimens · 17 stops · 62 days · 301 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.
