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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2017-11-28 human Helen Cohn updated 2026-05-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005911b.htm person McFarlane Samuel AACR2 MacFarlane, Samuel 18 February 1837 27 January 1911 Place of Birth Johnstone, near Glasgow, United Kingdom Place of Death Southport, Lancashire, United Kingdom Missionary Minister of religion Ethnologist Natural history collector Samuel McFarlane was a missionary with the London Missionary Society who spent ten years in the Loyalty Island before being withdrawn in 1869 because of diplomatic difficulties between France and Britain. He visited Australia 1867-1868 as a mission delegate. Between 1874 and 1886 he was with the New Guinea mission. Based at Cape York and later Murray Island in the Torres Strait, McFarlane made numerous visit to New Guinea, establishing 12 mission stations, and becoming adept in several indigenous languages. He made a number of explorations in New Guinea, sometimes in company with Luigi D'Albertis, Andrew Goldie, James Chalmers and Carl Hartmann. McFarlane was a prolific collector of ethnographic and natural history specimens from Torres Strait and New Guinea. Many of these specimens were sold and are now in European museums. Many of his botanical specimens he sent to Ferdinand von Mueller in Melbourne. 1858 1858 Life event - Ordained with the London Missionary Society 1859 1869 Career position - Missionary in the Loyalty Islands 1874 1886 Career position - Missionary with New Guinea Mission 1887 1887 Award - Honorary doctorate, University of St Andrews, Scotland 1887 1887 Life event - Retired from the New Guinea Mission 1887 1894 Career position - Officer with the London Missionary Society 1894 1894 Life event - Retired Goldie, Andrew (1840 - 1891) D'Albertis, Luigi Maria (1841 - 1901)

Accompanied D'Albertis on his first exploration of the Fly River, New Guinea, 1875

 National Herbarium of Victoria (1896 - )

The Herbarium holds McFarlane's New Guinean specimens

 'McFarlane, Samuel', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology McFarlane, Samuel Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: MacFarlane, Samuel (1837 - 1911), missionary Gibbney, H. J. MacFarlane, Samuel (1837 - 1911), missionary Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1974 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 5: 1851 - 1890 K-Q Douglas Pike 153-4 Journal Article: KRAR: nineteenth century turtle-shell masks from Mabuyag collected by Samuel McFarlane Philip, Jude KRAR: nineteenth century turtle-shell masks from Mabuyag collected by Samuel McFarlane 2015 Memoirs of the Queensland Museum: Culture 8 1 99-125 Book: Masked histories : turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people Lui-Chivizhe, Leah Masked histories : turtle shell masks and Torres Strait Islander people Carlton, Vic. Miegunyah Press 2022 Book: Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 Van Steenis-Kruseman, M. J. Malaysian plant collectors and collections: being a cyclopaedia of botanical exploration in Malaysia and a guide to the concerned literature up to the year 1950 Djakarta Noordhoff-Kolff NV 1950