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. 12 journeys so far, 1929 to 1958, 4,088 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions295 days in the field111,293 km between stops3,671 photographed specimens
12 journeys match
Harold St.John
Oʻahu and Maui · Sep 1929 – May 1930
Harold St.John in Oʻahu and Maui, September 1929 – May 1930759 specimens · 51 stops · 230 days · 1,207 km
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
11 islands · Oct 1957 – Feb 1958
Harold St.John across 11 islands, October 1957 – February 1958325 specimens · 61 stops · 125 days · 23,583 km
Harold St.John
Maui and Oʻahu · Aug – Nov 1945
Harold St.John in Maui and Oʻahu, August – November 1945369 specimens · 21 stops · 107 days · 649 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
6 islands · Nov 1955 – Jan 1956
Harold St.John across 6 islands, November 1955 – January 1956293 specimens · 22 stops · 65 days · 13,814 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
5 islands · Jun – Aug 1947
Harold St.John across 5 islands, June – August 1947162 specimens · 13 stops · 63 days · 23,782 km
Harold St.John
3 islands · 4–15 Apr 1938
Harold St.John in Lānaʻi, Maui and Rotuma, 4–15 April 1938248 specimens · 6 stops · 12 days · 4,846 km
Harold St.John
3 islands · Oct 1951 – Jan 1952
Harold St.John in Maui, Oʻahu and Maug, October 1951 – January 1952115 specimens · 15 stops · 85 days · 313 km
Harold St.John
Oʻahu and Maui · Dec 1940 – Feb 1941
Harold St.John in Oʻahu and Maui, December 1940 – February 194189 specimens · 7 stops · 54 days · 96 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.