The Marine Biological Station, as the Linnaean…

The Marine Biological Station, as the Linnaean Society’s new zoological center proposed by Miklouho-Maclay is known, is constructed by John Kirkpatrick, a prominent Sydney architect.

Located in Watsons Bay on the east side of the Greater Sydney, this facility is the first marine biological research institute in Australia.

Miklouho-Maclay marries Margaret-Emma Robertson, daughter of the Premier of New South Wales, John Robertson.

Miklouho-Maclay from 1879 onward has written a number of letters to Australian papers, and corresponds with Sir Arthur Gordon, High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, on protecting the land rights of his friends on what will come to be known as New Guinea’s Maclay Coast, and ending the traffic in arms and intoxicants in the South Pacific.