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. 8 journeys so far, 1915 to 1927, 1,174 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions50 days in the field11,722 km between stops1,169 photographed specimens
8 journeys match
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
3 islands · May – Jul 1925
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston in Maui, Kahoʻolawe and Pearl and Hermes Atoll, May – July 1925240 specimens · 9 stops · 53 days · 276 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
4 islands · 1–15 Dec 1925
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston across 4 islands, 1–15 December 1925351 specimens · 2 stops · 15 days · 4,142 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
6 islands · 14–24 May 1923
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston across 6 islands, 14–24 May 1923135 specimens · 8 stops · 11 days · 2,027 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
Hawaiʻi Island · 1–7 Jul 1915
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston in Hawaiʻi Island, 1–7 July 1915119 specimens · 2 stops · 7 days · 34 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
Hawaiʻi Island · Jan – Feb 1923
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston in Hawaiʻi Island, January – February 1923118 specimens · 2 stops · 5 days · 108 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
Hawaiʻi Island · Jan – Feb 1924
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston in Hawaiʻi Island, January – February 192466 specimens · 4 stops · 19 days · 197 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
Pearl and Hermes Atoll and Nihoa · 1–6 Apr 1927
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston in Pearl and Hermes Atoll and Nihoa, 1–6 April 1927102 specimens · 2 stops · 6 days · 1,490 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
Kingman Reef and Maui · Jun – Jul 1926
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston in Kingman Reef and Maui, June – July 192643 specimens · 3 stops · 49 days · 3,448 km
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.