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. 7 journeys so far, 1945 to 2002, 3,964 specimens between them.
5 collectors and expeditions208 days in the field111,235 km between stops2,568 photographed specimens
7 journeys match
Ernani Meñez
50 islands · Jun – Sep 1960
Ernani Meñez across 50 islands, June – September 19602,317 specimens · 38 stops · 100 days · 40,857 km
Sydney Glassman
8 islands · Jun – Sep 1949
Sydney Glassman across 8 islands, June – September 1949524 specimens · 41 stops · 82 days · 1,957 km
Harold St.John
5 islands · Sep 1947 – Jan 1948
Harold St.John across 5 islands, September 1947 – January 1948276 specimens · 21 stops · 126 days · 13,296 km
Benjamin C. Stone
22 islands · Feb – Aug 1957
Benjamin C. Stone across 22 islands, February – August 1957301 specimens · 47 stops · 169 days · 33,594 km
Harold St.John
7 islands · Dec 1946 – Feb 1947
Harold St.John across 7 islands, December 1946 – February 1947291 specimens · 17 stops · 67 days · 4,927 km
Harold St.John
15 islands · Dec 1945 – May 1946
Harold St.John across 15 islands, December 1945 – May 1946194 specimens · 23 stops · 147 days · 16,487 km
M.J. Balick
4 islands of Micronesia · 5–17 Aug 2002
M.J. Balick across 4 islands of Micronesia, 5–17 August 200261 specimens · 3 stops · 13 days · 117 km
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date (year, month and day; a bare “1 January” is treated as a missing day) and a named collector is a diary entry. For each collector the days are read in order, each day given the place most of its labels name. The place where a collector spent more than forty percent of their days, and at least sixty of them, is home: days there are left out.
A gap of more than 21 days between collecting days ends one journey and begins the next. A journey must run five to four hundred days, hold at least forty specimens and touch at least two places. Within it, consecutive days inside the same or a neighbouring tenth-of-a-degree cell (about eleven kilometres) are one stop; the stop’s point is the mean of its labels’ coordinates, or the island’s centre when none carry any.
Companions are collectors whose own labels put them in the same cell on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it, feature it or hide it; those words survive every rebuild. Everything else is read off the specimens and rebuilt by harvest.mjs expeditions as the records improve.