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. 3 journeys so far, 1931 to 1936, 614 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions20 days in the field411 km between stops614 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Welche
Oʻahu · Aug – Oct 1935
Welche in Oʻahu, August – October 1935298 specimens · 6 stops · 69 days · 257 km
D'Alte A. Welch
Kauaʻi · 1–28 Sep 1931
D'Alte A. Welch in Kauaʻi, 1–28 September 1931260 specimens · 2 stops · 28 days · 67 km
D'Alte A. Welch
Hawaiʻi Island · Dec 1935 – Jan 1936
D'Alte A. Welch in Hawaiʻi Island, December 1935 – January 193656 specimens · 2 stops · 6 days · 87 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.