Person
Mikluho-Maklai, Nicholai Nicholaievich (1846 - 1936)
Baron
- Born
- 17 July 1846
Rozhdestvenskoye, Russia - Died
- 1 January 1936
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Occupation
- Biologist and Explorer
- Alternative Names
- Maclay, Nicholas (Also known as)
Summary
Nicholai Mikluho-Maklai, also known as Nicholas Maclay, explored New Guinea and was founder of the Marine Biological Station, Watson's Bay, Sydney 1881.
Archival resources
Fisher Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney
- Nikolaievich Mikluho-Maklai - Records, 1876 - 1884, XT79; Fisher Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of Sydney. Details
The Linnean Society of New South Wales
- Nikolaievich Mikluho-Maklai - Records, 1946; The Linnean Society of New South Wales. Details
Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales
- Nikolaievich Mikluho-Maklai - Records, 1863 - 1944, A2889; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Nikolaievich Mikluho-Maklai - Records, 1873 - 1881, ML MSS 2913; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Nikolaievich Mikluho-Maklai - Records, 1875 - 1935, FM 3/480; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Nikolaievich Mikluho-Maklai - Records, 1884 - 1886, ML DOC 3023; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Nikolaievich Mikluho-Maklai - Records, 1873 - 1912, FM 4/2717-22; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
- Thomas Henry Huxley - Records, 1846 - 1850, FM 4/216; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection
Published resources
Books
- Greenop, F. S., Who Travels Alone (Sydney: K. G. Murray, 1944). Details
- Thomassen, E. S., A Biographical Sketch of Nicholas de Miklouho Maclay, the Explorer (Brisbane: 1882). Details
- Webster, E. M., The Moon Man: a Biography of Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 1984), 448 pp. Details
Book Sections
- Maclay, R. W. de, 'Mikluho-Maklai, Nicholai Nicholaievich (1846-1888), scientist and explorer' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 5 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1974), pp. 248-250. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A050285b.htm. Details
Journal Articles
- Mikluho-Maklai, N., 'A short resume of anthropological and anatomical researches in Melanesia and Australia', Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, 6 (1882), 171-7, https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/LIN/issue/view/463. Details
- Shnukal, Anna, 'Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay's five days on Mabuyag in 1880', Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Culture, 8 (1) (2015), 209-19. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q312499. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/24687402. Details
- 'Mikluho-Maklai, Nicholai Nicholaievich (1846-1888)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1461262. Details
See also
- Van Steenis-Kruseman, M. J., Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 (Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff NV, 1950), clii, 639 pp. Details
McCarthy, G.J.
Created: 20 October 1993, Last modified: 13 February 2018
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