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. 63 journeys so far, 1929 to 2009, 18,507 specimens between them.
45 collectors and expeditions1,557 days in the field1,330,081 km between stops9,232 photographed specimens
63 journeys match
F. Raymond Fosberg
56 islands · Apr – Nov 1946
F. Raymond Fosberg across 56 islands, April – November 19462,439 specimens · 102 stops · 209 days · 105,682 km
Masahiko Takamatsu
31 islands · Dec 1935 – Jun 1936
Masahiko Takamatsu across 31 islands, December 1935 – June 19362,083 specimens · 77 stops · 205 days · 15,209 km
Ernani Meñez
50 islands · Jun – Sep 1960
Ernani Meñez across 50 islands, June – September 19602,317 specimens · 38 stops · 100 days · 40,857 km
Donald Anderson
22 islands · Aug 1949 – Mar 1950
Donald Anderson across 22 islands, August 1949 – March 19501,249 specimens · 70 stops · 211 days · 151,545 km
Edward Yataro Hosaka
31 islands · Apr – Aug 1946
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 31 islands, April – August 1946872 specimens · 51 stops · 110 days · 43,680 km
R.L. Stemmermann
28 islands · Nov 1977 – Feb 1978
R.L. Stemmermann across 28 islands, November 1977 – February 1978620 specimens · 70 stops · 102 days · 20,526 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
13 islands · Jun – Sep 1980
F. Raymond Fosberg across 13 islands, June – September 1980538 specimens · 66 stops · 98 days · 125,697 km
T. Hosokawa
17 islands · Jul – Nov 1933
T. Hosokawa across 17 islands, July – November 1933500 specimens · 50 stops · 137 days · 17,296 km
H.A. Miller
26 islands · Jun – Aug 1960
H.A. Miller across 26 islands, June – August 1960410 specimens · 37 stops · 90 days · 20,099 km
Sydney Glassman
8 islands · Jun – Sep 1949
Sydney Glassman across 8 islands, June – September 1949524 specimens · 41 stops · 82 days · 1,957 km
Derral R. Herbst
4 islands · May – Jun 1984
Derral R. Herbst across 4 islands, May – June 1984431 specimens · 14 stops · 28 days
F. Raymond Fosberg
5 islands · Nov 1953 – Feb 1954
F. Raymond Fosberg across 5 islands, November 1953 – February 1954343 specimens · 50 stops · 83 days · 28,095 km
Benjamin C. Stone
22 islands · Feb – Aug 1957
Benjamin C. Stone across 22 islands, February – August 1957301 specimens · 47 stops · 169 days · 33,594 km
F. Raymond Fosberg
10 islands · Oct – Dec 1978
F. Raymond Fosberg across 10 islands, October – December 1978361 specimens · 27 stops · 68 days · 79,655 km
M.A. Evans
21 islands · Jun – Aug 1965
M.A. Evans across 21 islands, June – August 1965313 specimens · 36 stops · 62 days · 22,345 km
Johnson Randall
15 islands of Palau · Mar – May 1970
Johnson Randall across 15 islands of Palau, March – May 1970432 specimens · 21 stops · 54 days · 44,188 km
Jan Newhouse
5 islands · May – Sep 1954
Jan Newhouse across 5 islands, May – September 1954224 specimens · 51 stops · 114 days · 18,081 km
Robert Hobdy
17 islands · Apr – Aug 1982
Robert Hobdy across 17 islands, April – August 1982250 specimens · 24 stops · 106 days · 16,977 km
T. Hosokawa
15 islands · Jul – Sep 1936
T. Hosokawa across 15 islands, July – September 1936207 specimens · 23 stops · 64 days · 6,008 km
R. Kanehira
18 islands · Jun – Aug 1929
R. Kanehira across 18 islands, June – August 1929195 specimens · 28 stops · 90 days · 12,115 km
Steven Perlman
7 islands · Jan – Apr 2009
Steven Perlman across 7 islands, January – April 2009157 specimens · 25 stops · 94 days · 15,389 km
H.A. Miller
5 islands · Mar – Apr 1965
H.A. Miller across 5 islands, March – April 1965261 specimens · 6 stops · 42 days · 16,828 km
T. Hosokawa
12 islands · Jun – Sep 1934
T. Hosokawa across 12 islands, June – September 1934185 specimens · 21 stops · 89 days · 8,890 km
A.R. Emery
11 islands of Palau · Mar – Apr 1970
A.R. Emery across 11 islands of Palau, March – April 1970294 specimens · 18 stops · 28 days · 43,958 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.