Autograph Letter Signed Your most obed. Serv. Alex McLeay, to D.Turner [Dawson Turner], about the whereabouts of Professor Espirs Diploma from the Linnean Society, saying that it was part of a packet sent by Mr. Sowerby to France, and the Paris agent had confirmed that it had been forwarded
by MACLEAY, Alexander
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Transport Office, 10 October 1801. 2 pp. 10 x 7 inches, in good condition. Alexander McLeay [or MacLeay] (1767 1848) was a leading member of the Linnean Society, a fellow of the Royal Society and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. In 1795 he was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, also serving as its Secretary, and was also appointed chief clerk in the prisoners of war office. When the office was linked with the Transport Board after war broke out, Macleay became head of the correspondence department. In1825, Macleay was appointed Colonial Secretary for New South Wales. He arrived in Sydney in January 1826, with his wife Eliza, 9 of his 10 surviving children, and his extensive collection. His extensive entomological collections formed the basis of the Macleay Museum at the University of Sydney.
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- Autograph Letter Signed ‘Your most obed. Serv. Alex McLeay’, to D.Turner [Dawson Turner], about the whereabouts of Professor Espir’s Diploma from the Linnean Society, saying that it was part of a packet sent by Mr. Sowerby to France, and the Paris agent had confirmed that it had been forwarded
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- MACLEAY, Alexander
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- Used
- Place of Publication
- Transport Office, 10 October 1801
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