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Alexander Macleay

Australian naturalist and diplomat

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In museum: The spread of the European model
…an amateur naturalist and diplomat, Alexander Macleay, was responsible for the initiatives that led to the opening in 1829 of what was to become the Australian Museum in Sydney.
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