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. 386 journeys so far, 1879 to 2025, 77,946 specimens between them.
181 collectors and expeditions7,426 days in the field917,728 km between stops56,956 photographed specimens
386 journeys match
Isa Degener
Maui and Oʻahu · May – Sep 1959
Isa Degener in Maui and Oʻahu, May – September 195969 specimens · 27 stops · 123 days · 591 km
Gunder E. Olson
Maui · Jun – Aug 1937
Gunder E. Olson in Maui, June – August 193770 specimens · 12 stops · 66 days · 148 km
W.C. Fleming
Maui and Molokaʻi · Mar – Apr 1959
W.C. Fleming in Maui and Molokaʻi, March – April 1959104 specimens · 8 stops · 11 days · 379 km
Otto Herman Swezey
3 islands of the United States · Mar – Jul 1920
Otto Herman Swezey in Oʻahu, Maui and Kauaʻi, March – July 1920103 specimens · 19 stops · 129 days · 191 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
Maui and Molokaʻi · 8–24 Apr 1937
Edward Yataro Hosaka in Maui and Molokaʻi, 8–24 April 193793 specimens · 9 stops · 17 days · 286 km
Warren L. Wagner Jr.
3 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1983
Warren L. Wagner Jr. in Hawaiʻi Island, Molokaʻi and Maui, July – August 1983102 specimens · 8 stops · 10 days · 224 km
Kenneth M. Nagata
4 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1979
Kenneth M. Nagata across 4 islands of the United States, May – July 197980 specimens · 12 stops · 44 days · 1,220 km
R.L. Stemmermann
4 islands · Feb – Apr 1977
R.L. Stemmermann across 4 islands, February – April 197785 specimens · 13 stops · 62 days · 5,427 km
Maxwell S. Doty
3 islands · 1–28 Aug 1955
Maxwell S. Doty in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Yoron Island, 1–28 August 195594 specimens · 8 stops · 28 days · 397 km
M. Kiehn
5 islands of the United States · Jul – Sep 1990
M. Kiehn across 5 islands of the United States, July – September 199060 specimens · 16 stops · 65 days · 1,646 km
W.H. Hatheway
Hawaiʻi Island and Maui · Oct – Nov 1950
W.H. Hatheway in Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, October – November 195069 specimens · 15 stops · 33 days · 226 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
4 islands · Aug – Sep 1961
F. Raymond Fosberg across 4 islands, August – September 196170 specimens · 13 stops · 34 days · 462 km
R. Gustafson
3 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1983
R. Gustafson in Hawaiʻi Island, Molokaʻi and Maui, July – August 198398 specimens · 8 stops · 10 days · 223 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Kahoʻolawe and Maui · 1–19 Feb 1931
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Kahoʻolawe and Maui, 1–19 February 1931102 specimens · 9 stops · 19 days · 26 km
R.L. Stemmermann
Oʻahu and Maui · Oct – Nov 1976
R.L. Stemmermann in Oʻahu and Maui, October – November 197697 specimens · 6 stops · 28 days · 176 km
R.L. Stemmermann
Maui and Hawaiʻi Island · 1–21 Aug 1977
R.L. Stemmermann in Maui and Hawaiʻi Island, 1–21 August 1977119 specimens · 5 stops · 21 days · 161 km
G. Clarke
3 islands of the United States · 9–25 Apr 1980
G. Clarke in Kahoʻolawe, Kauaʻi and Maui, 9–25 April 1980125 specimens · 4 stops · 17 days · 403 km
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman
Maui · Apr – May 1945
Elwood Curtin Zimmerman in Maui, April – May 1945146 specimens · 7 stops · 15 days · 43 km
Dale H. Vitt
3 islands of the United States · 6–22 Dec 1975
Dale H. Vitt in Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, 6–22 December 197574 specimens · 14 stops · 17 days · 232 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
3 islands of the United States · 4–26 Apr 1939
Edward Yataro Hosaka in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Lānaʻi, 4–26 April 193969 specimens · 14 stops · 23 days · 337 km
Arthur Greenwell
Hawaiʻi Island and Maui · Aug – Sep 1949
Arthur Greenwell in Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, August – September 194984 specimens · 10 stops · 17 days · 49 km
Otto Herman Swezey
Maui and Oʻahu · Aug – Sep 1929
Otto Herman Swezey in Maui and Oʻahu, August – September 1929163 specimens · 8 stops · 20 days · 223 km
John Colburn Bridwell
Maui and Oʻahu · Aug – Sep 1918
John Colburn Bridwell in Maui and Oʻahu, August – September 1918124 specimens · 6 stops · 32 days · 69 km
W.C. Martin
3 islands of the United States · Jul – Aug 1983
W.C. Martin in Hawaiʻi Island, Molokaʻi and Maui, July – August 198392 specimens · 8 stops · 10 days · 223 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.