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. 39 journeys so far, 1963 to 1994, 7,549 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions766 days in the field132,871 km between stops5,207 photographed specimens
39 journeys match
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands of the United States · Sep – Oct 1973
Derral R. Herbst in Lānaʻi, Oʻahu and Molokaʻi, September – October 197396 specimens · 9 stops · 30 days · 73 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands of the United States · Apr – Jun 1978
Derral R. Herbst in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, April – June 1978102 specimens · 6 stops · 43 days · 778 km
Derral R. Herbst
Oʻahu · Dec 1989 – Mar 1990
Derral R. Herbst in Oʻahu, December 1989 – March 199067 specimens · 13 stops · 78 days · 253 km
Derral R. Herbst
Kauaʻi and Maui · Nov 1972 – Feb 1973
Derral R. Herbst in Kauaʻi and Maui, November 1972 – February 197358 specimens · 11 stops · 79 days · 768 km
Derral R. Herbst
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · 11–18 Jan 1975
Derral R. Herbst in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, 11–18 January 197592 specimens · 6 stops · 8 days · 302 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands of the United States · Nov – Dec 1975
Derral R. Herbst in Hawaiʻi Island, Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, November – December 197563 specimens · 8 stops · 31 days · 484 km



Derral R. Herbst
Aug – Sep 1963
Derral R. Herbst, August – September 196375 specimens · 5 stops · 24 days · 80 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands of the United States · Dec 1969 – Feb 1970
Derral R. Herbst in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, December 1969 – February 197040 specimens · 15 stops · 84 days · 1,198 km
Derral R. Herbst
8 islands · May – Jun 1994
Derral R. Herbst across 8 islands, May – June 199465 specimens · 7 stops · 44 days · 16,541 km
Derral R. Herbst
Oʻahu · Nov 1992 – Jan 1993
Derral R. Herbst in Oʻahu, November 1992 – January 199346 specimens · 5 stops · 47 days · 243 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands of the United States · 7–13 Dec 1980
Derral R. Herbst in Maui, Oʻahu and Pearl and Hermes Atoll, 7–13 December 198088 specimens · 6 stops · 7 days · 2,159 km
Derral R. Herbst
Palmyra Atoll · 1–24 Sep 1987
Derral R. Herbst in Palmyra Atoll, 1–24 September 198757 specimens · 6 stops · 24 days
Derral R. Herbst
Lānaʻi and Oʻahu · May – Jun 1974
Derral R. Herbst in Lānaʻi and Oʻahu, May – June 197440 specimens · 5 stops · 28 days · 113 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands · Feb – Apr 1992
Derral R. Herbst in Palmyra Atoll, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island, February – April 199247 specimens · 6 stops · 41 days · 1,763 km
Derral R. Herbst
Kure Atoll and Hawaiʻi Island · 3–12 Jan 1979
Derral R. Herbst in Kure Atoll and Hawaiʻi Island, 3–12 January 197953 specimens · 3 stops · 10 days · 2,498 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.
