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. 13 journeys so far, 1930 to 1971, 4,021 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions270 days in the field78,739 km between stops3,677 photographed specimens
13 journeys match
Harold St.John
7 islands · Sep 1932 – Jan 1933
Harold St.John across 7 islands, September 1932 – January 1933929 specimens · 23 stops · 113 days · 8,847 km
Harold St.John
5 islands · Sep 1930 – May 1931
Harold St.John across 5 islands, September 1930 – May 1931545 specimens · 46 stops · 258 days · 10,194 km
Harold St.John
4 islands of the United States · Sep 1931 – Mar 1932
Harold St.John across 4 islands of the United States, September 1931 – March 1932481 specimens · 30 stops · 167 days · 1,433 km
Harold St.John
4 islands · Oct 1936 – Feb 1937
Harold St.John across 4 islands, October 1936 – February 1937352 specimens · 20 stops · 95 days · 23,771 km
Harold St.John
4 islands of the United States · Sep 1952 – Feb 1953
Harold St.John across 4 islands of the United States, September 1952 – February 1953271 specimens · 28 stops · 151 days · 1,245 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
3 islands of the United States · Dec 1937 – Jan 1938
Harold St.John in Hawaiʻi Island, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, December 1937 – January 1938290 specimens · 15 stops · 37 days · 359 km
Harold St.John
7 islands · Nov – Dec 1953
Harold St.John across 7 islands, November – December 1953254 specimens · 14 stops · 33 days · 9,010 km
Harold St.John
4 islands of the United States · Nov 1954 – Feb 1955
Harold St.John across 4 islands of the United States, November 1954 – February 1955193 specimens · 22 stops · 97 days · 1,375 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
Harold St.John
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1955
Harold St.John across 4 islands of the United States, June – July 195596 specimens · 11 stops · 34 days · 411 km
Harold St.John
Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi · Dec 1949 – Jan 1950
Harold St.John in Hawaiʻi Island and Kauaʻi, December 1949 – January 195063 specimens · 6 stops · 13 days · 450 km
Harold St.John
Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu · Jun – Jul 1971
Harold St.John in Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, June – July 197162 specimens · 5 stops · 11 days · 230 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.