Cunningham, Allan (1791 - 1839) Born in Wimbledon, England, on 13 July 1791, died in Sydney, New South Wales, on 27 June 1839. Selected by Banks from among Kew staff to be an overseas collector ('King's Botanist to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew'). Between 1814 and 1816 he collected in Brazil, arriving in Australia in December 1816. Cunningham joined several expeditions, including that of Oxley along the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers (1817) and Philip Parker King's coastal surveys (Mermaid and Bathurst, 1817-1822). ----------------------- EXTRACT FROM AUST DICT BIOG ONLINE <http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020053b.htm> [1: 1817-18] ... sailed from Sydney on 22 December with a complement of nineteen including Allan Cunningham, John Septimus Roe and the Aboriginal Bungaree. By way of King George Sound they reached North West Cape ... From February until June 1818 ... surveyed the coast as far as Van Diemen's Gulf and had many meetings with Aboriginals and Malay proas. In June ... visited Timor and ... returned to Sydney the way she had come, ... on 29 July. [2: 1818-19] Next December and January King surveyed ... Macquarie Harbour in Van Diemen's Land and sailed in May 1819 for Torres Strait. He took John Oxley as far as the Hastings River, and went on to survey the coast between Cape Wessel and Admiralty Gulf. He returned to Sydney on 12 January 1820. [3: 1820] The Mermaid sailed north on 14 June 1820. ... Surveys were made between Admiralty Gulf and Brunswick Sound on the north-west coast, .... King then left the coast and sailed to Port Jackson where... he arrived on 9 December. [4: 1821-22] King made his fourth and final survey in northern Australia in the Bathurst, 170 tons, ...; in place of Bungaree King took another Aboriginal, Bundell. The Bathurst sailed on 26 May 1821 from Sydney by way of Torres Strait to the north-west coast. After a visit to Mauritius ... the Bathurst resumed the survey of the west coast. King arrived back in Sydney in April 1822. EXTRACT FROM AUST DICT BIOG ONLINE <http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020053b.htm> ----------------------- In 1818 he collected at Illawarra, New South Wales, and in Tasmania at Hobart and Macquarie Harbour. Other localities visited by the King survey included Port Macquarie and Hastings River in New South Wales, Rodd's Bay, Percy Isles, Cleveland Bay, Halifax and Rockingham Bays, and Endeavour River in Queensland, and Goulburn Island, Vernon Islands, Cambridge Gulf and Port Wanderer in northern Australia. In 1822 Cunningham collected in New South Wales at Illawarra, Blue Mountains, Pandora Pass and Liverpool Plains. In 1824 he visited the source of the Murrumbidgee and Brisbane Rivers, and in 1825 the Nepean and Hunter Rivers, Pandora Pass, Liverpool Plains, Wellington Valley, Coxs River and other places in New South Wales. He was in New Zealand (1826) and on the Darling Downs, Queensland (1827). He returned to England in 1831, but came back to New South Wales in 1837 as Government Botanist, a position he resigned after a year. Many taxa have been based on his collections, and many of his manuscript names have since been taken up, but he published little himself. His main collection is at K, with some duplicates elsewhere, including B, BM, BR, BRI, CGE, DBN, E, FI, G, GH, GL, L, LINN, M, MEL, MO, NSW, OXF (500+ specimens), SING, U, US, W and WELT. Extracted from: A.E.Orchard (1999) A History of Systematic Botany in Australia , in Flora of Australia Vol.1 , 2nd ed. , ABRS. [consult for source references] <http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/cunningham-allan.html> ========= Cunningham, A. Specimens of the language spoken by the natives of terra Australis inhabiting (it?). 1822. ...... cutter Mermaid 1817-22. SM fol. PP [4, 1817-22] The table is headed: A comparison table of ...... the Different Languages spoken by the aborigines of the Continent of Terra Australia, at different parts of the Coast. Columns for: English Port Jackson King Geo. Sd King Georges Sound Flinders Endr River Van Diem. Isl. ...... ========== Ralph Hawkins reports about Hornsby Library: Allan Cunningham's 'Comparative Table of Coastal Languages'. It is dated 6th Jan 1822 and is on microfilm at Hornsby Library, Col Sec Reel 6034, SZ 8 pp 215 - 217 This is what he has for Port Jackson. Mitchell Library Ref. A 1752, WHICH THEY CROSS OUT AND REPLACE WITH FM4/3090 AT THE DESK. Mitchell Library: FM4/3090 ---------- Keith Smith wrote: FYI - The vocabulary printed by PP King in his book was based on a manuscript by Allan Cunningham c1818. He was the botanist on board Lady Nelson. I think the MS reference was A1752, Mitchell Library, Sydney. --------------- David Nash wrote: ‘A 1752 is indeed the call number of 'Allan Cunningham - Miscellaneous papers, 1826, 1831-1833', http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=431542, but c1818 would be in 'Allan Cunningham - Papers [M692], 1814-1839' http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/item/itemDetailPaged.aspx?itemID=432406 (Call Number MAV / FM4 / 3101) and indeed there the relevant item in this catalogue listing would seem to be: " 4). Draft entitled "Original MS of appendix to P.P. King's 'Survey' ... and dated "New So Wales July 1822". "------------ =================== LIST location: JS Wordlist Ringbinder A-L