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. 14 journeys so far, 1987 to 2022, 1,652 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions397 days in the field68,301 km between stops1,387 photographed specimens
14 journeys match
Steven Perlman
6 islands of the United States · Jan 1987 – Jan 1988
Steven Perlman across 6 islands of the United States, January 1987 – January 1988387 specimens · 89 stops · 373 days · 2,461 km
Steven Perlman
4 islands of the United States · Mar – Oct 1991
Steven Perlman across 4 islands of the United States, March – October 1991189 specimens · 38 stops · 211 days · 6,398 km
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
Steven Perlman
7 islands · Jan – Apr 2009
Steven Perlman across 7 islands, January – April 2009157 specimens · 25 stops · 94 days · 15,389 km
Steven Perlman
9 islands · Sep – Dec 2008
Steven Perlman across 9 islands, September – December 2008122 specimens · 20 stops · 81 days · 10,371 km
Steven Perlman
7 islands · Jun – Oct 1997
Steven Perlman across 7 islands, June – October 1997111 specimens · 23 stops · 117 days · 9,650 km
Steven Perlman
Kauaʻi and Maui · Apr – Sep 2014
Steven Perlman in Kauaʻi and Maui, April – September 201473 specimens · 22 stops · 161 days · 1,352 km
Steven Perlman
6 islands · Apr – Jul 2004
Steven Perlman across 6 islands, April – July 2004114 specimens · 22 stops · 110 days · 9,780 km
Steven Perlman
4 islands of the United States · May – Jul 2013
Steven Perlman across 4 islands of the United States, May – July 201375 specimens · 17 stops · 58 days · 1,476 km
Steven Perlman
Kauaʻi and Maui · Mar – Jul 2017
Steven Perlman in Kauaʻi and Maui, March – July 201765 specimens · 17 stops · 126 days
Steven Perlman
4 islands of the United States · Apr – Jul 2012
Steven Perlman across 4 islands of the United States, April – July 201247 specimens · 14 stops · 84 days · 1,122 km
Steven Perlman
4 islands · Mar – May 2007
Steven Perlman across 4 islands, March – May 200777 specimens · 9 stops · 50 days · 5,611 km
Steven Perlman
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 2007
Steven Perlman across 4 islands of the United States, June – July 200753 specimens · 10 stops · 37 days · 644 km
Steven Perlman
Maui and Kauaʻi · Aug – Sep 2022
Steven Perlman in Maui and Kauaʻi, August – September 202250 specimens · 5 stops · 27 days · 338 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.