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
V Townsend Cromwell cruise 40
3 islands of the United States · Nov – Dec 1968
V Townsend Cromwell cruise 40, November – December 1968344 specimens · 7 stops · 28 days · 298 km
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3 islands of the United States · Nov – Dec 1968
station, November – December 1968344 specimens · 7 stops · 28 days · 298 km



Otto Herman Swezey
Molokaʻi · May – Sep 1927
Otto Herman Swezey in Molokaʻi, May – September 1927201 specimens · 13 stops · 112 days · 30 km
R. Okano
3 islands of the United States · Jan – Feb 2000
R. Okano in Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi Island and Maui, January – February 2000355 specimens · 5 stops · 17 days · 223 km



Glen W. Russ
Molokaʻi · 1–13 Dec 1932
Glen W. Russ in Molokaʻi, 1–13 December 1932236 specimens · 4 stops · 13 days · 35 km



Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
Molokaʻi and Kiritimati · Jul – Aug 1924
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Molokaʻi and Kiritimati, July – August 1924164 specimens · 6 stops · 35 days · 4,362 km
Thomas G. Lammers
3 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1984
Thomas G. Lammers in Maui, Molokaʻi and Oʻahu, June – July 1984115 specimens · 14 stops · 36 days · 403 km
Joseph F. Rock
3 islands of the United States · Jul – Sep 1918
Joseph F. Rock in Maui, Hawaiʻi Island and Molokaʻi, July – September 1918168 specimens · 8 stops · 67 days · 409 km
R.C. Gardner
6 islands of the United States · Jan – Feb 1974
R.C. Gardner across 6 islands of the United States, January – February 197489 specimens · 24 stops · 54 days · 1,081 km



Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
Hawaiʻi Island and Molokaʻi · 1–11 Oct 1911
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Hawaiʻi Island and Molokaʻi, 1–11 October 1911168 specimens · 7 stops · 11 days · 311 km
Steven L. Montgomery
5 islands of the United States · May – Sep 1987
Steven L. Montgomery across 5 islands of the United States, May – September 198789 specimens · 15 stops · 102 days · 1,657 km
M.A. Evans
3 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1990
M.A. Evans in Molokaʻi, Oʻahu and Maui, June – July 1990142 specimens · 8 stops · 35 days · 100 km
Joseph F. Rock
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1920
Joseph F. Rock across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 1920107 specimens · 12 stops · 42 days · 445 km



Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss
4 islands of the United States · Oct – Dec 1947
Noel Louis Hilmer Krauss across 4 islands of the United States, October – December 1947188 specimens · 15 stops · 40 days · 52 km
H.A. Woolford
4 islands of the United States · 1–31 Dec 1954
H.A. Woolford across 4 islands of the United States, 1–31 December 1954116 specimens · 10 stops · 31 days
Isa Degener
3 islands of the United States · Mar – May 1959
Isa Degener in Maui, Molokaʻi and Oʻahu, March – May 1959108 specimens · 11 stops · 39 days · 864 km



Judd
Molokaʻi · 8–13 Mar 1916
Judd in Molokaʻi, 8–13 March 1916301 specimens · 2 stops · 6 days · 4 km
Steven Perlman
10 islands · Dec 2007 – Feb 2008
Steven Perlman across 10 islands, December 2007 – February 200883 specimens · 18 stops · 53 days · 7,666 km
C.R. Annable
4 islands of the United States · Jan – Mar 1998
C.R. Annable across 4 islands of the United States, January – March 199897 specimens · 10 stops · 53 days · 1,111 km
B. Kimura
4 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1978
B. Kimura across 4 islands of the United States, June – August 197885 specimens · 15 stops · 50 days · 598 km
Kenneth M. Nagata
3 islands of the United States · Jun – Aug 1978
Kenneth M. Nagata in Hawaiʻi Island, Maui and Molokaʻi, June – August 197886 specimens · 15 stops · 44 days · 639 km



D. Akana
Molokaʻi · 8–15 Aug 1933
D. Akana in Molokaʻi, 8–15 August 1933252 specimens · 2 stops · 8 days · 42 km
C.H. Lamoureux
3 islands of the United States · Jun – Jul 1962
C.H. Lamoureux in Molokaʻi, Maui and Midway Atoll, June – July 1962151 specimens · 4 stops · 36 days · 2,230 km
F.R. Warshauer
Molokaʻi and Maui · Jun – Jul 1979
F.R. Warshauer in Molokaʻi and Maui, June – July 1979108 specimens · 9 stops · 34 days · 18 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.
