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. 225 journeys so far, 1910 to 2022, 50,781 specimens between them.
128 collectors and expeditions4,399 days in the field479,458 km between stops39,327 photographed specimens
225 journeys match
Judd
Molokaʻi · 5–20 Feb 1919
Judd in Molokaʻi, 5–20 February 1919474 specimens · 8 stops · 16 days · 87 km
Joseph F. Rock
5 islands of the United States · Mar – May 1910
Joseph F. Rock across 5 islands of the United States, March – May 1910361 specimens · 11 stops · 68 days · 120 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
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Steven L. Montgomery
3 islands of the United States · May – Sep 1979
Steven L. Montgomery in Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi Island and Lānaʻi, May – September 1979268 specimens · 35 stops · 100 days · 1,207 km
Otto Degener
3 islands · Feb – Sep 1959
Otto Degener in Maui, Oʻahu and Molokaʻi, February – September 1959214 specimens · 48 stops · 242 days · 2,169 km
Elbert L. Little Jr.
6 islands of the United States · Aug – Sep 1976
Elbert L. Little Jr. across 6 islands of the United States, August – September 1976271 specimens · 23 stops · 52 days · 1,816 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
Alan Holt
Maui and Molokaʻi · May – Aug 1980
Alan Holt in Maui and Molokaʻi, May – August 1980302 specimens · 13 stops · 104 days · 433 km
Paul K. Higashino
Hawaiʻi Island and Molokaʻi · Jun – Jul 1974
Paul K. Higashino in Hawaiʻi Island and Molokaʻi, June – July 1974290 specimens · 17 stops · 46 days · 517 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
R.L. Stemmermann
3 islands of the United States · May – Aug 1979
R.L. Stemmermann in Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi Island and Oʻahu, May – August 1979252 specimens · 25 stops · 94 days · 1,167 km
Henry Wiebke
3 islands of the United States · Mar – Aug 1928
Henry Wiebke in Molokaʻi, Maui and Oʻahu, March – August 1928203 specimens · 32 stops · 146 days · 349 km
Charles N. Forbes
5 islands of the United States · Feb – Apr 1913
Charles N. Forbes across 5 islands of the United States, February – April 1913309 specimens · 8 stops · 60 days · 556 km
Henry Wiebke
4 islands of the United States · Mar – Aug 1926
Henry Wiebke across 4 islands of the United States, March – August 1926150 specimens · 51 stops · 152 days · 2,253 km
Derral R. Herbst
5 islands · Aug – Dec 1974
Derral R. Herbst across 5 islands, August – December 1974178 specimens · 27 stops · 126 days · 1,297 km
Charles N. Forbes
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Jun 1916
Charles N. Forbes across 4 islands of the United States, January – June 1916175 specimens · 26 stops · 156 days · 2,894 km
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R.J. Baker
3 islands of the United States · Sep 1932 – Jan 1933
R.J. Baker in Molokaʻi, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi, September 1932 – January 1933204 specimens · 16 stops · 115 days · 120 km
Derral R. Herbst
4 islands of the United States · Feb – May 1973
Derral R. Herbst across 4 islands of the United States, February – May 1973186 specimens · 22 stops · 93 days · 1,628 km
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
Kauaʻi and Molokaʻi · Jun – Jul 1914
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Kauaʻi and Molokaʻi, June – July 1914303 specimens · 7 stops · 37 days · 413 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
Robert Hobdy
17 islands · Apr – Aug 1982
Robert Hobdy across 17 islands, April – August 1982250 specimens · 24 stops · 106 days · 16,977 km
A.R.H. Lamberton
4 islands of the United States · May – Jul 1953
A.R.H. Lamberton across 4 islands of the United States, May – July 1953292 specimens · 31 stops · 36 days · 445 km
Kenneth R. Wood
4 islands of the United States · Mar – May 2005
Kenneth R. Wood across 4 islands of the United States, March – May 2005202 specimens · 17 stops · 58 days · 2,044 km
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Alfred F. Judd Jr
Molokaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island · Jul – Aug 1925
Alfred F. Judd Jr in Molokaʻi and Hawaiʻi Island, July – August 1925242 specimens · 11 stops · 60 days · 237 km
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date (year, month and day; a bare “1 January” is treated as a missing day) and a named collector is a diary entry. For each collector the days are read in order, each day given the place most of its labels name. The place where a collector spent more than forty percent of their days, and at least sixty of them, is home: days there are left out.
A gap of more than 21 days between collecting days ends one journey and begins the next. A journey must run five to four hundred days, hold at least forty specimens and touch at least two places. Within it, consecutive days inside the same or a neighbouring tenth-of-a-degree cell (about eleven kilometres) are one stop; the stop’s point is the mean of its labels’ coordinates, or the island’s centre when none carry any.
Companions are collectors whose own labels put them in the same cell on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it, feature it or hide it; those words survive every rebuild. Everything else is read off the specimens and rebuilt by harvest.mjs expeditions as the records improve.