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. 3 journeys so far, 1940 to 1942, 216 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions79 days in the field162 photographed specimens
3 journeys match
Maxwell S. Doty
Squaw · Jun – Sep 1940
Maxwell S. Doty in Squaw, June – September 194086 specimens · 31 stops · 103 days
Maxwell S. Doty
Squaw · Jun – Aug 1941
Maxwell S. Doty in Squaw, June – August 194165 specimens · 21 stops · 74 days
Maxwell S. Doty
Squaw and Raroia Atoll · Jun – Aug 1942
Maxwell S. Doty in Squaw and Raroia Atoll, June – August 194265 specimens · 25 stops · 87 days
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.