Person

Mikluho-Maklai, Nicholai Nicholaievich (1846 - 1936)

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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

  • Nikolaievich Mikluho-Maklai - Records, 1886, MS 3375; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details
  • Nikolaievich Mikluho-Maklai - Records, 1946, MS 130; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

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, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q, Douglas Pike, ed. (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

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.

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