Miklouho-Maclay Society of Australia records

MLMSS 12031/Boxes 1-6
MLMSS 12031/Box 7X

fonds

1880s-1988

Textual Records, Clippings, Ephemera, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs

80528

1.33 metres of textual material (6 boxes, 1 outsize box), includes photographs

The Miklouho-Maclay Society was established on the initiative of Robertson Maclay in 1978 and had its first meeting in March 1979. The Society’s purpose was to study and promote the contributions made by Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maklai in the fields of anthropology and biology and the study of New Guinea. The Society closed in 1988.

Reference
Library correspondence file

Nicholai Nicholaievich Mikluho-Maklai (1846-1888) was a Russian scientist, explorer and anthropologist who studied the people, environment and culture of New Guinea and Melanesia.
Maclay’s travels took him to Sydney where he established Australia’s first marine laboratory in Watsons Bay in 1882 and married Margaret Clark, the widowed daughter of former Premier, Sir John Robertson in 1884.
Maclay was a staunch supporter of protecting the people of Melanesia and Aboriginal Australians from mistreatment and exploitation.
He died in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1888.

Reference
“Nicholai Nicholaievich Mikluho-Maklai (1846–1888)”, Australian Dictionary of Biography. Viewed 2 November 2023, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography

Collection of papers and records created and compiled by the Miklouho-Maclay Society of Australia, chiefly 1978-1988. The collection is in Russian and English.

BOX 1

Minutes and annual reports, 1979-1982
Minutes and annual reports, 1983-1988
Society correspondence pre-1978, development of Constitution and formation, 1978-1979
Correspondence, 1979-1988
Overseas correspondence and contacts

BOX 2

Society finance and treasury
Society publicity and history
Macleay Miklouho-Maclay Centenary Appeal
Publicity and functions with Visitors Book
Exhibitions
Member obituaries, Honorary members, V. S. Starikov’s illustrated suggestions for a Society badge
Films – drafts, proposals and treatments

BOX 3

Newsletter drafts, Volume 1-volume 3
Newsletter drafts, Volume 4-volume 5
Newsletter drafts, Volume 6-volume 7
Newsletter drafts, Volume 8-volume 9 and Newsletter Index, 1980-1988


BOX 4

News cuttings and Society leaflets
Society typescripts, newsletter proofs, etc.
Overseas tours
Research and reference consultation
Papua New Guinea research and Society clippings and article including photograph of Damun Maklai, PNG
Articles for newsletters
Library resources

BOX 5

Mikloucho-Maclay’s Journeys in the Malay Peninsula / translated by C. L. Sentinella (manuscript)
New Guinea Diaries / translated by C. L. Sentinella (manuscript)
Biographies
Journey to the Far East / N. A. Butinov (manuscript)
E M. Webster ‘The Moon Man’ drafts and other reviews
Reviews of ‘New Guinea Diaries’ / Sentinella and ‘The Moon Man’ / Webster
‘N. De Miklouho-Maclay: scientist and humanitarian (1846-1888) / special essay by Natalie Staples, University of New England, 1962
University of Sydney News, 1987
Research articles and photograph of Alex McLeay

BOX 6

Con Tanre including article on Russian place names in New Guinea
Camp Cove Biological Station
Ukrainian claims to Miklouho-Maclay ancestry
Original service record in Russian of Cornet Sergei Sergeyevich Miklukho-Maklai, 1919 and translated transcript in English
Raymond James Sheridan papers and photographs
Harry H. Jackman
Constantine Michael Hotimsky papers
Council representation,1980-1988
Bibliography and associated materials to 1988 / Con Tanre

BOX 7X

Photocopy of Margaret Emma Miklouho-Maclay's diary, 1889

English, Russian

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