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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

V Townsend Cromwell cruise 40

3 islands of the United States · Nov – Dec 1968

V Townsend Cromwell cruise 40, November – December 1968

344 specimens · 7 stops · 28 days · 298 km

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3 islands of the United States · Nov – Dec 1968

station, November – December 1968

344 specimens · 7 stops · 28 days · 298 km

Otto Herman Swezey

Molokaʻi · May – Sep 1927

Otto Herman Swezey in Molokaʻi, May – September 1927

201 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 2000

355 specimens · 5 stops · 17 days · 223 km

Glen W. Russ

Molokaʻi · 1–13 Dec 1932

Glen W. Russ in Molokaʻi, 1–13 December 1932

236 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 1924

164 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 1984

115 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 1918

168 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 1974

89 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 1911

168 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 1987

89 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 1990

142 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 1920

107 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 1947

188 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 1954

116 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 1959

108 specimens · 11 stops · 39 days · 864 km

Judd

Molokaʻi · 8–13 Mar 1916

Judd in Molokaʻi, 8–13 March 1916

301 specimens · 2 stops · 6 days · 4 km

Steven Perlman

10 islands · Dec 2007 – Feb 2008

Steven Perlman across 10 islands, December 2007 – February 2008

83 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 1998

97 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 1978

85 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 1978

86 specimens · 15 stops · 44 days · 639 km

D. Akana

Molokaʻi · 8–15 Aug 1933

D. Akana in Molokaʻi, 8–15 August 1933

252 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 1962

151 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 1979

108 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.