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ALLAN CUNNINGHAM
BOTANIST (1791-1839)
PEN AND INK PORTRAIT BY
PHILLIP PARKER KING 1817
FROM THE COLLECTION OF
THE STATE LIBRARY OF NSW
MITCHELL LIBRARY

Allan Cunningham

Biographical Sketch of the Late Allan Cunningham FLS MRGS

by Robert Heward FLS

Published 1842

BACKEdited by Diane Challenor FORWARD
as a companion to
THE KING'S BOTANICAL COLLECTOR

CONTENTS of PART 1

CONTENTS

Part 1 covers the period July 1791 to March 1820
This extract, from Heward's Part 1, begins at page 231 of The Journal of Botany
Volume IV 1842.

        Allan Cunningham's Early Life
13th July 1791 to 29th October 1814		 
        Brazil
28th December 1814 to 28th September 1816		 
        Australia
20th December 1816		 
         John Oxley's Expedition to trace the course of the Lachlan River
4th April to 8th September 1817		 
        Phillip Parker King's First Australian Coastal Survey Departing Southward aboard HMS "Mermaid" 22nd December 1817 to 29th July 1818 
        King George Sound, Oyster Harbour
20th January to 1st February 1818
 
        Exmouth Gulf, Curlew River, Dampier Archipelago
15th February to 2nd March 1818		 
        South Goulburn Island to Bathurst Island
27th March to 27th May 1818		 
        Timor, Coepang, Port Jackson 5th June to 29th June
5th June 1818		 
        Mr Cunningham's Observations
King's First Coastal Survey aboard HMS "Mermaid"
22nd December to 29th July 1818		 
        Bay of Rest; Dampier's Archipelago;
The North Coast; Goulburn Island; and Sim's Island		 
        Illawarra District
19th October to 19th November 1818		 
        King's Voyage From Port Jackson To Tasmania And Return
Aboard HMS "Mermaid"
25th December 1818 to 14th February 1819		 
        Mount Wellington
7th January 1819		 
        Macquarie Harbour
12th January 1819		 
        King's Second Australian Coastal Survey:
Circumnavigation North From Port Jackson aboard HMS "Mermaid"
8th May 1819 to 12th January 1820		 
        Port Macquarie, Hastings River
11th May to 21st May 1819		 
        Rodds Bay to Rockingham Bay
29th May to 21st June 1819		 
         Endeavour River
29th June to 12th July 1819		 
        Liverpool River to Port Warrender
4th August to 13th October 1819		 
        Timor 16th October, then onward to
Port Jackson 12th January 1820		 
        Expedition to the Blue Mountains with Leut. Lawson, Fedor Shtein the
Russian naturalist and the artist Emel'yan Korneyev March 1820		 

CONTENTS HEWARD'S SKETCH | PART ONE | TWO | THREE | FOUR | FIVE | SIX

TIME LINE | ENDNOTES | PLANT INDEX | PLANT SEARCH

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