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. 80 journeys so far, 1910 to 2003, 26,442 specimens between them.
47 collectors and expeditions1,738 days in the field309,906 km between stops20,265 photographed specimens
80 journeys match
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
23 islands · May – Dec 1949
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 23 islands, May – December 19492,551 specimens · 57 stops · 218 days · 71,593 km
Laurence H. MacDaniels
12 islands · Oct 1926 – Jul 1927
Laurence H. MacDaniels across 12 islands, October 1926 – July 19272,144 specimens · 105 stops · 274 days · 40,135 km
Charles N. Forbes
6 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1915
Charles N. Forbes across 6 islands of the United States, May – July 19151,032 specimens · 49 stops · 79 days · 992 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of the United States · Jan – Aug 1928
Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, January – August 1928748 specimens · 74 stops · 209 days · 1,716 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
Carl Skottsberg
6 islands of the United States · Jun – Oct 1938
Carl Skottsberg across 6 islands of the United States, June – October 1938776 specimens · 47 stops · 106 days · 2,822 km
Lucy May Cranwell
6 islands of the United States · May – Oct 1938
Lucy May Cranwell across 6 islands of the United States, May – October 1938734 specimens · 51 stops · 146 days · 3,245 km
Otto Degener
5 islands of the United States · Mar – Aug 1926
Otto Degener across 5 islands of the United States, March – August 1926607 specimens · 71 stops · 177 days · 3,068 km
Harold St.John
5 islands · Sep 1930 – May 1931
Harold St.John across 5 islands, September 1930 – May 1931545 specimens · 46 stops · 258 days · 10,194 km
John Colburn Bridwell
Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island · Jan – Aug 1917
John Colburn Bridwell in Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, January – August 1917831 specimens · 28 stops · 193 days · 1,209 km
Donald Anderson
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · 7–31 Dec 1937
Donald Anderson in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, 7–31 December 19371,115 specimens · 8 stops · 25 days · 391 km
Martin L. Grant
3 islands · Jul – Oct 1934
Martin L. Grant in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Moorea, July – October 1934572 specimens · 31 stops · 121 days · 9,586 km
Y. Kondo
Hawaiʻi Island · Jul – Aug 1946
Y. Kondo in Hawaiʻi Island, July – August 1946854 specimens · 10 stops · 46 days · 490 km
Harold St.John
4 islands of the United States · Sep 1931 – Mar 1932
Harold St.John across 4 islands of the United States, September 1931 – March 1932481 specimens · 30 stops · 167 days · 1,433 km
Charles N. Forbes
3 islands of the United States · Feb – Jun 1910
Charles N. Forbes in Maui, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, February – June 1910446 specimens · 29 stops · 120 days · 1,746 km
John August Kusche
Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island · Jan – Jun 1919
John August Kusche in Kauaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island, January – June 1919682 specimens · 35 stops · 142 days · 450 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island · Apr – Sep 1951
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo in Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, April – September 1951330 specimens · 27 stops · 127 days · 2,315 km
Maxwell S. Doty
11 islands · Sep 1953 – Aug 1954
Maxwell S. Doty across 11 islands, September 1953 – August 1954309 specimens · 40 stops · 315 days · 78,333 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
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1913
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 1913422 specimens · 10 stops · 45 days · 815 km
Pils
4 islands · Jan – Mar 1913
Pils across 4 islands, January – March 1913362 specimens · 13 stops · 54 days · 1,100 km
Charles N. Forbes
3 islands of the United States · Jan – Apr 1915
Charles N. Forbes in Molokaʻi, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, January – April 1915353 specimens · 21 stops · 65 days · 233 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
Charles N. Forbes
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1913
Charles N. Forbes across 4 islands of the United States, June – July 1913406 specimens · 8 stops · 38 days · 774 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.