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. 6 journeys so far, 1923 to 1938, 10,647 specimens between them.
6 collectors and expeditions416 days in the field130,885 km between stops9,148 photographed specimens
6 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
Lapham Exped
12 islands · Jul – Oct 1938
Lapham Exped, July – October 19382,585 specimens · 25 stops · 98 days · 3,171 km
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo
12 islands of Fiji · Jun – Oct 1938
Yoshio KondoKay Kondo across 12 islands of Fiji, June – October 19382,255 specimens · 28 stops · 115 days · 15,460 km
Albert C. Smith
16 islands · Oct 1933 – Jun 1934
Albert C. Smith across 16 islands, October 1933 – June 19342,049 specimens · 73 stops · 248 days · 76,386 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
7 islands of Fiji · Jul – Oct 1938
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman across 7 islands of Fiji, July – October 1938697 specimens · 21 stops · 92 days · 3,794 km
Zimmerman Jacob
7 islands · Jul – Oct 1938
Zimmerman Jacob across 7 islands, July – October 1938669 specimens · 13 stops · 88 days · 1,147 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.