Australia’s early naturalists went to great lengths to get new specimens. For Robyn Stacey, shooting the wonders of the Macleay Museum’s natural history collections took its own kind of intrepidity.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Alexander Macleay's name has survived in Sydney in the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney and a street in Potts Point that now ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Hide and seek: Dr Jude Philp prepares one of the exhibits at the Macleay museum.Credit: Dallas Kilponen Ms Philp, an anthropologist and ...

A SHIP arrived in Sydney in 1826 bringing a new colonial secretary along with his large family and hundreds of boxes of bugs. Macleay’s collection, at one stage considered one of the finest private ...

No title. Wealthy elder from Su'uafa, wearing dala head ornament and dolphin tooth necklace. European man probably a plantation owner. Late 19th - early 20th century. Malaita, Solomon Islands.(Donated ...

A restoration of the Macleay building would in itself be very welcome: it was constructed in 1887 as a fireproof edifice to house the highly flammable Macleay entomological collections, and ...

Alexander Macleay’s name has survived in Sydney in the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney and a street in Potts Point that now runs behind Elizabeth Bay House, which he built in the 1830s. The ...