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
Steven Perlman
5 islands of the United States · Sep 2012 – Mar 2013
Steven Perlman across 5 islands of the United States, September 2012 – March 2013132 specimens · 40 stops · 170 days · 3,709 km
Wayne C. Gagne
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Nov 1970
Wayne C. Gagne across 4 islands of the United States, January – November 1970150 specimens · 60 stops · 305 days · 3,577 km
Joseph F. Rock
5 islands of the United States · Aug – Nov 1916
Joseph F. Rock across 5 islands of the United States, August – November 1916205 specimens · 13 stops · 77 days · 1,762 km
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston
3 islands · May – Jul 1925
L.A. Thurston L.A. ThurstonL.A. Thurston in Maui, Kahoʻolawe and Pearl and Hermes Atoll, May – July 1925240 specimens · 9 stops · 53 days · 276 km
H.A. Woolford
Maui · 1–31 Dec 1955
H.A. Woolford in Maui, 1–31 December 1955229 specimens · 14 stops · 31 days · 42 km
Grady L. Webster
3 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1948
Grady L. Webster in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, May – July 1948193 specimens · 17 stops · 44 days · 594 km
L.M. Hodgson
4 islands of the United States · Feb – May 2001
L.M. Hodgson across 4 islands of the United States, February – May 2001164 specimens · 23 stops · 108 days · 1,950 km
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Wayne N. Takeuchi
3 islands of the United States · Jul – Oct 1983
Wayne N. Takeuchi in Kauaʻi, Oʻahu and Maui, July – October 1983183 specimens · 17 stops · 71 days · 1,520 km
R.L. Wilbur
3 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1948
R.L. Wilbur in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, May – July 1948191 specimens · 17 stops · 44 days · 594 km
Joseph F. Rock
3 islands of the United States · Apr – Jun 1918
Joseph F. Rock in Molokaʻi, Oʻahu and Maui, April – June 1918200 specimens · 14 stops · 62 days · 167 km
H.A. Miller
4 islands of the United States · May – Jun 1953
H.A. Miller across 4 islands of the United States, May – June 1953191 specimens · 24 stops · 33 days · 441 km
Pele Expedition 1959
3 islands · Jul – Aug 1959
Pele Expedition 1959, July – August 1959286 specimens · 6 stops · 33 days · 617 km
Otto Degener
4 islands · Dec 1949 – May 1950
Otto Degener across 4 islands, December 1949 – May 1950142 specimens · 27 stops · 159 days · 1,031 km
Alvin K. Chock
3 islands of the United States · Dec 1951 – Mar 1952
Alvin K. Chock in Maui, Kauaʻi and Oʻahu, December 1951 – March 1952166 specimens · 19 stops · 99 days · 1,160 km
Steven Perlman
7 islands · Jan – Apr 2009
Steven Perlman across 7 islands, January – April 2009157 specimens · 25 stops · 94 days · 15,389 km
Otto Degener
Oʻahu and Maui · May – Sep 1935
Otto Degener in Oʻahu and Maui, May – September 1935146 specimens · 27 stops · 112 days · 990 km
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr.
Oʻahu and Maui · Sep 1919 – Jan 1920
Edwin Horace Bryan Jr. in Oʻahu and Maui, September 1919 – January 1920201 specimens · 28 stops · 133 days · 556 km
H.A. Pilsbry
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1913
H.A. Pilsbry across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 1913189 specimens · 13 stops · 56 days · 1,191 km
Otto Degener
4 islands · Jun – Dec 1922
Otto Degener across 4 islands, June – December 1922113 specimens · 48 stops · 194 days · 3,540 km
G.S. Mizuno
Maui · Jun – Aug 1976
G.S. Mizuno in Maui, June – August 1976214 specimens · 9 stops · 68 days · 130 km
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga
4 islands · Dec 1925 – Jan 1926
Ted E. should Be D. Dranga across 4 islands, December 1925 – January 1926365 specimens · 3 stops · 39 days · 8,285 km
Otto Herman Swezey
Maui · Jul – Nov 1918
Otto Herman Swezey in Maui, July – November 1918300 specimens · 17 stops · 120 days
Otto Degener
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1961
Otto Degener across 4 islands of the United States, June – July 1961153 specimens · 22 stops · 54 days · 560 km
Henry Wiebke
Maui and Oʻahu · Jun – Aug 1927
Henry Wiebke in Maui and Oʻahu, June – August 1927127 specimens · 34 stops · 79 days · 304 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.