• Title
  Watsons Bay, Camp Cove in foreground
• Call number
  SPF/809
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  undated [ca. 1881- ]
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  420872
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 14.7 x 20.1 cm. - albumen photoprint
  
• Scope and Content
  Marine Biological Station (centre right)
• General note
  
  Scientist and explorer, Nicholaievich Miklukho-Maklai (1846-1888), known as Nicholas Maclay, was instrumental in establishing Australia's first biological field station. The station opened in Oct 1881 and served as a field station from 1881-1886. It was later used to house military personnel. -- Reference: Nikolai and Australian connections : a brief history of the life and achievements of Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay / Wendy Paton. Double Bay, N.S.W. : Woollahra Library, 1996.
  Digital order no:a089809
  This item has been catalogued and digitised under a project funded and supported by the State Library of New South Wales Foundation, 2001.
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Titled in pencil on reverse
• Topic
  batteries (guns)
  bays
  fortifications
  harbours
  houses
  laboratories
  marine biology
  
• Place
  Camp Cove (N.S.W.)
  Laings Point (N.S.W.)
  Marine Biological Station (Laings Point, Watsons Bay, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1228175

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