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Macleay Gorges
MacLeay or Macleay or McLeay may refer to: People * Alexander Macleay (1767–1848), Scottish civil servant and entomologist. * George Macleay (1809–1891), Australian explorer and politician. * George McLeay (1892–1955), Australian politician * Glenn McLeay (born 1968), New Zealand cyclist * John McLeay Jr. (1922–2000), Australian politician * John McLeay Sr. (1893–1982), Australian politician * Ken MacLeay (born 1959), English-born Australian cricketer. * Leo McLeay (born 1945), Australian politician. * Paul McLeay (born 1972), Australian politician * William John Macleay (1820–1891), Australian politician and naturalist. * William Sharp Macleay (1792–1865), British entomologist. Places * Electoral district of Macleay, New South Wales, Australia. * Macleay Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. * Macleay Museum of science, University of Sydney, Australia. * Macleay River, New South Wales, Australia. * Macleay Shire, a former LGA in New South Wales, Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Macleay
Alexander Macleay (also spelt McLeay) MLC FLS FRS (24 June 1767 – 18 July 1848) was a leading member of the Linnean Society, a fellow of the Royal Society and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Life Macleay was born on Ross-shire, Scotland, eldest son of William Macleay, provost of Wick. Alexander had a classical education, before relocating to London and becoming a wine merchant with his business partner William Sharp – after whom his first son was named. 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 and by 1806 secretary. The board was abolished in 1815, and Macleay retired on an annual pension, of £750. Macleay's chief natural history interest was entomology, principally lepidoptery, and he possessed the finest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Macleay
Macleay was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales established in 1880 in the Macleay River area. Between 1889 and 1894, it elected two members with voters casting two votes and the two leading candidates being elected. In 1894, it was abolished, partly replaced by Raleigh Raleigh (; ) is the capital city of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States. It is the second-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte. Raleigh is the tenth-most populous city in the Southeas .... Under the spelling conventions of the time it was generally spelled M'Leay. Members for Macleay Election results Notes References Former electoral districts of New South Wales Constituencies established in 1880 1880 establishments in Australia Constituencies disestablished in 1894 1894 disestablishments in Australia {{NewSouthWales-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macleay's Mustached Bat
Macleay's mustached bat (''Pteronotus macleayii'') is a species of bat in the family Mormoopidae. It is found in Cuba and Jamaica, and is threatened by habitat loss. The species is named for William Sharp Macleay, who collected the type specimen. Description Macleay's mustached bat is a small bat, with an average body length of and a tail long. Fully-grown adults weigh , with males being slightly larger than females. The body is covered by greyish-brown to orange-brown fur, fading to near-white on the undersides. The head is relatively flat with a slightly upturned snout. The ears are narrow and pointed, with serrated outer edges near the tips, and a long, slightly flattened tragus. The wings have an aspect ratio of 7.6 and a wing loading of 4.6 N/m2, suitable for agile flying in cluttered environments, such as forests. The encephalisation quotient of the species has been calculated at 0.85. Distribution and habitat Macleay's mustached bats are widespread on Cuba and Jamai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macleay's Honeyeater
Macleay's honeyeater (''Xanthotis macleayanus'') is a honeyeater endemic to Australia. Within Australia it has a limited distribution, occurring only in northern Queensland from Cooktown to the southern end of the Paluma Range. Its natural habitats are tropical dry forests and tropical moist lowland forests. References Macleay's honeyeater Birds of Cape York Peninsula Endemic birds of Australia Macleay's honeyeater Macleay's honeyeater (''Xanthotis macleayanus'') is a honeyeater endemic to Australia. Within Australia it has a limited distribution, occurring only in northern Queensland from Cooktown to the southern end of the Paluma Range. Its natural ha ... Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Meliphagidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macleay's Dorcopsis
Macleay's dorcopsis (''Dorcopsulus macleayi''), also known as the Papuan dorcopsis or the Papuan forest wallaby, is a species of marsupial in the family Macropodidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea, where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forest]. Being little threatened by habitat destruction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of "least concern". Taxonomy Macleay's dorcopsis was first described by the Russian biologist Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay who named it ''Dorcopsulus macleayi'' in honour of the Australian naturalist William John Macleay. It is the type species of the genus. Some authorities consider it to be the same species as the small dorcopsis (''Dorcopsulus vanheurni''), which has a much wider distribution in New Guinea, but Groves (2005) supports its status as a separate species. Description The species is a small, nocturnal forest wallaby with an average weight of about and fur that is dense and dark brown ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macleay Shire
Macleay Shire was a local government area in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Macleay Shire was proclaimed on 7 March 1906, one of 134 shires created after the passing of the ''Local Government (Shires) Act 1905''. The shire offices were in West Kempsey. Other towns in the shire included Bellbrook, Frederickton, Smithtown and South West Rocks. Macleay Shire was amalgamated with the Municipality of Kempsey to form Kempsey Shire Kempsey Shire is a local government area in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. The shire services an area of and is located on the Pacific Highway and the North Coast railway line. Kempsey Shire was formed on 1 Octob ... on 1 October 1975. References Former local government areas of New South Wales 1906 establishments in Australia 1975 disestablishments in Australia {{NSW-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macleay River
The Macleay River is a river that spans the Northern Tablelands and Mid North Coast districts of New South Wales, Australia. Course and features Formed by the confluence of the Gara River, Salisbury Waters and Bakers Creek, the Macleay River rises below Blue Nobby Mountain, east of Uralla within the Great Dividing Range. The river flows in a meandering course generally east by south, joined by twenty-six tributaries including the Apsley, Chandler, and Dyke rivers and passing through a number of spectacular gorges and waterfalls in Cunnawarra National Park and Oxley Wild Rivers National Park, before reaching its mouth at the Tasman Sea, near South West Rocks. The river descends over its course. The river flows through the town of Kempsey. At the river is traversed by the Pacific Highway via the Macleay River Bridge (Dhanggati language: ''Yapang gurraarrbang gayandugayigu''). At the time of its official opening in 2013, the bridge was the longest road bridge in Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macleay Museum
The Macleay Museum at The University of Sydney, was a natural history museum located on the University's campus, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The Museum was amalgamanted into Chau Chak Wing Museum, which opened in 2020. The Macleay Museum was added to the City of Sydney local government heritage list on 14 December 2012. History The Edgeworth David building in which the museum is housed was built off Science Lane within the Camperdown campus in 1887. The collections of the Macleay Museum are based largely on the efforts and acquisitions of the Macleay family, one of the pre-eminent families in colonial Sydney including Alexander Macleay, William Sharp Macleay and William John Macleay. The zoologist and collector George Masters served as curator until 1912. Collection The strengths of the collection, now part of the Sydney University Museums, were in entomology, ethnography, scientific instruments, and historic photographs. Many of the biological specimens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macleay Island
Macleay Island is an island in Moreton Bay, South East Queensland, South East Queensland, Australia. The island constitutes a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality within the Redland City, City of Redland. In the , the locality of Macleay Island had a population of 2,681 people. Geography Macleay Island is the fourth largest island in Moreton Bay after North Stradbroke Island, Moreton Island and Russell Island (Moreton Bay), Russell Island; it is 6.5 km long and 4 km wide at its widest point. Perulpa Island is a small island attached to Macleay Island by a causeway. Macleay Island has the following capes and beaches (from north to south): * Potts Point (Coondooroopa) () * Sandpiper Beach () * Thompson Point () * Perrebinpa Point () * Point Pininpinin () History For some time in the 1800s the island was called Tim Shea's Island after a convict who lived on the island for more than a decade. The current name was given by surveyor James Warner (surve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sharp Macleay
William Sharp Macleay or McLeay (21 July 1792 – 26 January 1865) was a British civil servant and entomologist. He was a prominent promoter of the Quinarian system of classification. After graduating, he worked for the British embassy in Paris, following his interest in natural history at the same time, publishing essays on insects and corresponding with Charles Darwin. Macleay moved to Havana, Cuba, where he was, in turn, commissioner of arbitration, commissary judge, and then judge. Retiring from this work, he emigrated to Australia, where he continued to collect insects and studied marine natural history. Early life Macleay was born in London, eldest son of Alexander Macleay, who named him for his then business partner, fellow wine merchant William Sharp. He attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with honours in 1814. He was then appointed attaché to the British embassy at Paris, and secretary to the board for liquidating British claims ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Macleay
Sir George Macleay (180924 June 1891) was an Australian explorer and politician. Biography Macleay was born in London, the third son of Alexander Macleay and educated at Westminster School. He came to Australia in 1826. In November 1829 he accompanied Charles Sturt on his second expedition to the mouth of the Murray River and back. Early in April 1830, after difficulties on the expedition and the whole party was practically exhausted, Sturt recorded that ''"amidst these distresses Macleay preserved his good humour and did his utmost to lighten the toil and to cheer the men"''. Macleay and Sturt remained good friends and corresponded regularly until Sturt's death in 1869. Macleay then lived on and farmed the Brownlow estate, near Camden, and also established a property at Fish River, between Goulburn and Yass from 1831 to 1859. In 1854 Macleay was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council for the Pastoral District of Murrumbidgee. In 1856 the unicameral Legislati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William John Macleay
Sir William John Macleay (13 June 1820 – 7 December 1891) was a Scottish- Australian politician, naturalist, zoologist, and herpetologist. Early life Macleay was born at Wick, Caithness, Scotland, second son of Kenneth Macleay of Keiss and his wife Barbara, ''née'' Horne. Macleay was educated at the Edinburgh Academy 1834–36 and then to studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh; but when he was 18 years old his widowed mother died, and he decided to go to Australia with his cousin, William Sharp MacLeay. They arrived at Sydney in March 1839 on HMS ''Royal George''. William Macleay took up land at first near Goulburn, and afterwards on the Murrumbidgee River. He is noted as the last of the naturalists in a family active in this field; his uncle was Alexander Macleay, Colonial Secretary of New South Wales from 1826 to 1836, and a member and fellow of societies concerned with the flora and fauna of the empire's colonies. Political career On 1 March 1855 Macleay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
