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. 2,592 journeys so far, 1874 to 2026, 493,508 specimens between them.
1,114 collectors and expeditions42,779 days in the field8,765,933 km between stops330,332 photographed specimens
2,592 journeys
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
Steven Perlman
9 islands · Aug – Dec 1995
Steven Perlman across 9 islands, August – December 1995320 specimens · 39 stops · 137 days · 51,778 km
Hamzah
Borneo and Kalimantan · Apr – May 1994
Hamzah in Borneo and Kalimantan, April – May 1994270 specimens · 31 stops · 38 days · 3,384 km
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Gerrit Parmele Wilder
18 islands · Nov 1924 – May 1925
Gerrit Parmele Wilder across 18 islands, November 1924 – May 1925244 specimens · 43 stops · 188 days · 15,411 km
Charles N. Forbes
Maui and Oʻahu · Nov – Dec 1919
Charles N. Forbes in Maui and Oʻahu, November – December 1919310 specimens · 20 stops · 39 days · 614 km
G.A. Santos
8 islands · Apr – Jun 1969
G.A. Santos across 8 islands, April – June 1969298 specimens · 16 stops · 89 days
J.S. Burley
3 islands of the Philippines · Mar – Apr 1987
J.S. Burley in Luzon, Mindoro and Mindoro Oriental, March – April 1987366 specimens · 13 stops · 39 days · 3,461 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
Edward Yataro Hosaka
4 islands · Jun – Sep 1936
Edward Yataro Hosaka across 4 islands, June – September 1936232 specimens · 37 stops · 84 days · 4 km
R.P.H. Rutherford
11 islands · Jun – Sep 1978
R.P.H. Rutherford across 11 islands, June – September 1978489 specimens · 27 stops · 91 days · 6,285 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
Clarence H. Cooke Jr.
3 islands · Feb – Mar 1926
Clarence H. Cooke Jr. in Tutuila, Tau and Ofu, February – March 1926577 specimens · 4 stops · 29 days · 150 km
James Bryant
15 islands · Dec 1970 – May 1971
James Bryant across 15 islands, December 1970 – May 1971440 specimens · 31 stops · 149 days · 4,691 km
W.R. Sykes
5 islands · Apr – Jul 1992
W.R. Sykes across 5 islands, April – July 1992414 specimens · 16 stops · 75 days · 4,191 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
A. Nurdin
3 islands · Oct – Nov 1993
A. Nurdin in Borneo, Indonesia and Kalimantan, October – November 1993290 specimens · 23 stops · 32 days · 3,346 km
W.A. Whistler
8 islands · Jan – Apr 1974
W.A. Whistler across 8 islands, January – April 1974352 specimens · 31 stops · 99 days · 522 km
A. Gouveia A. Gouveia A. Gouveia v A. Gouveia
Oʻahu · Sep 1915 – Mar 1916
A. Gouveia A. Gouveia A. Gouveia v A. Gouveia in Oʻahu, September 1915 – March 1916337 specimens · 8 stops · 169 days · 663 km
Derral R. Herbst
3 islands · Mar – Jun 1983
Derral R. Herbst in Guam, Oʻahu and Maui, March – June 1983435 specimens · 21 stops · 80 days · 24,826 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
Erling Christophersen
3 islands · May – Jul 1932
Erling Christophersen in Oʻahu, Kauaʻi and Tutuila, May – July 1932518 specimens · 4 stops · 57 days · 8,548 km
Wm. R. Taylor
6 islands · Feb – Aug 1946
Wm. R. Taylor across 6 islands, February – August 1946242 specimens · 52 stops · 156 days · 5,901 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.