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. 20 journeys so far, 1923 to 1994, 9,048 specimens between them.
14 collectors and expeditions582 days in the field103,749 km between stops6,926 photographed specimens
20 journeys match
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
85 islands · Nov 1923 – Nov 1924
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. across 85 islands, November 1923 – November 19242,392 specimens · 109 stops · 342 days · 30,927 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
J.R. Le B. Tomlin Ex Jens M. Ostergaard
3 islands · Jun – Aug 1926
J.R. Le B. Tomlin Ex Jens M. Ostergaard in Viti Levu, Upolu and Tongatapu, June – August 1926868 specimens · 15 stops · 86 days · 4,546 km
E.P. Hume
3 islands · Jun – Sep 1931
E.P. Hume in Savaii, Tutuila and Upolu, June – September 1931761 specimens · 47 stops · 92 days · 225 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
4 islands · May – Aug 1940
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 4 islands, May – August 1940616 specimens · 10 stops · 86 days · 181 km
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · Aug – Sep 1929
Erling Christophersen in Upolu, Tutuila and Ofu, August – September 1929587 specimens · 24 stops · 37 days · 31 km
Erling Christophersen
5 islands · Oct – Nov 1929
Erling Christophersen across 5 islands, October – November 1929315 specimens · 20 stops · 44 days · 283 km
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
7 islands · Aug – Sep 1923
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 7 islands, August – September 1923171 specimens · 15 stops · 36 days · 5,391 km
Wray Harris
3 islands of Samoa · Jul – Aug 1937
Wray Harris in Upolu, Tutuila and Olosega, July – August 1937284 specimens · 3 stops · 32 days · 258 km
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · Dec 1931 – Feb 1932
Erling Christophersen in Tutuila, Oʻahu and Upolu, December 1931 – February 1932148 specimens · 8 stops · 47 days · 8,662 km
Otto Herman Swezey
6 islands · Jul – Sep 1923
Otto Herman Swezey across 6 islands, July – September 192395 specimens · 15 stops · 64 days · 824 km
Robert H. Cowie
5 islands · Oct – Nov 1992
Robert H. Cowie across 5 islands, October – November 1992131 specimens · 14 stops · 35 days · 503 km
Wray Harris
Tau and Upolu · Jul – Aug 1937
Wray Harris in Tau and Upolu, July – August 1937127 specimens · 3 stops · 31 days · 512 km
Gerrit Parmele Wilder
7 islands · Jun – Aug 1925
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 7 islands, June – August 192552 specimens · 22 stops · 65 days · 10,586 km
Erling Christopherson
Upolu · 5–15 Aug 1929
Erling Christopherson in Upolu, 5–15 August 192968 specimens · 3 stops · 11 days · 8 km
E.S.C. Handy
Upolu · Feb – Mar 1923
E.S.C. Handy in Upolu, February – March 192348 specimens · 4 stops · 17 days
Anthony C. Robinson
Upolu and Nuutele · Nov – Dec 1993
Anthony C. Robinson in Upolu and Nuutele, November – December 199370 specimens · 5 stops · 45 days · 118 km
Anthony C. Robinson
Savaii and Upolu · Feb – Mar 1994
Anthony C. Robinson in Savaii and Upolu, February – March 199459 specimens · 5 stops · 19 days · 322 km
Erling Christophersen
Tutuila and Upolu · 24–29 Jun 1931
Erling Christophersen in Tutuila and Upolu, 24–29 June 193153 specimens · 3 stops · 6 days · 145 km
Anthony C. Robinson
Upolu and Savaii · 20–24 Jun 1994
Anthony C. Robinson in Upolu and Savaii, 20–24 June 199459 specimens · 3 stops · 5 days · 92 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.