Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
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Nicholai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay was a Russian explorer of Ukrainian origin. He worked as an ethnologist, anthropologist and biologist who became famous as one of the earliest scientists to settle among and study indigenous people of New Guinea "who had never seen a European".
Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay
Ernst Haeckel with his assistant, Nicholai Miklouho-Maclay, in the Canary Islands, 1866
The Marine Biological Station (centre of photo) at Watson's Bay circa 1881.
Miklouho-Maclay, ca. 1880 in Queensland, Australia. A typically posed shot from the period to emphasise the "explorer" persona — note the Eucalyptus leaves, and explorer "tools".
William John Macleay
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Sir William John Macleay was a Scottish-Australian politician, naturalist, zoologist, and herpetologist.
Portrait by J. Hubert, c. 1890