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. 207 journeys so far, 1892 to 1995, 45,170 specimens between them.
63 collectors and expeditions3,387 days in the field312,272 km between stops19,870 photographed specimens
207 journeys match
Robert L. Usinger
23–27 Aug 1965
Robert L. Usinger, 23–27 August 196555 specimens · 4 stops · 5 days
Walter M. Giffard
1–29 Oct 1914
Walter M. Giffard, 1–29 October 191443 specimens · 4 stops · 29 days
Francis Xavier Williams
1–13 Feb 1937
Francis Xavier Williams, 1–13 February 193770 specimens · 2 stops · 13 days
J.C.E. Riotte
13–29 Apr 1982
J.C.E. Riotte, 13–29 April 198266 specimens · 2 stops · 17 days
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Oʻahu · 1–19 Mar 1942
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Oʻahu, 1–19 March 194265 specimens · 2 stops · 19 days
Otto Herman Swezey
Oʻahu · Jan – Feb 1920
Otto Herman Swezey in Oʻahu, January – February 192040 specimens · 4 stops · 29 days
David Timmins Fullaway
Hawaiʻi Island · 6–16 Sep 1919
David Timmins Fullaway in Hawaiʻi Island, 6–16 September 191943 specimens · 4 stops · 11 days
Philip Weber
Apr – May 1952
Philip Weber, April – May 195259 specimens · 2 stops · 17 days
R.R. Whitten
the United States · 1–14 Oct 1929
R.R. Whitten in the United States, 1–14 October 192954 specimens · 2 stops · 14 days
W.P. Mull
8–20 Feb 1978
W.P. Mull, 8–20 February 197843 specimens · 3 stops · 13 days
John W. Beardsley
1–14 Jun 1975
John W. Beardsley, 1–14 June 197541 specimens · 3 stops · 14 days
Betsy H. Gagne
7–15 Jul 1983
Betsy H. Gagne, 7–15 July 198351 specimens · 2 stops · 9 days
Robert L. Usinger
19–23 Jul 1956
Robert L. Usinger, 19–23 July 195655 specimens · 2 stops · 5 days
Yasuhiro Oshiro
the United States · 1–11 May 1957
Yasuhiro Oshiro in the United States, 1–11 May 195748 specimens · 2 stops · 11 days
J.C.E. Riotte
Kauaʻi · 7–25 Sep 1981
J.C.E. Riotte in Kauaʻi, 7–25 September 198140 specimens · 2 stops · 19 days
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.