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, 1905 to 1930, 340 specimens between them.
2 collectors and expeditions118 days in the field82 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
A.W. Stewart
17 islands · Jul 1905 – Apr 1906
A.W. Stewart across 17 islands, July 1905 – April 1906215 specimens · 62 stops · 287 days
A.W. Stewart
8 islands of Ecuador · Jan – Apr 1905
A.W. Stewart across 8 islands of Ecuador, January – April 190556 specimens · 24 stops · 93 days
H.K. Svenson
4 islands · Mar – Apr 1930
H.K. Svenson across 4 islands, March – April 193069 specimens · 17 stops · 24 days
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.