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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

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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 2

CONTENTS

Part 2 : covers the period June 1820 to August 1822
This extract, from Heward's Part 1, begins at page 253 of The Journal of Botany
Volume IV 1842.

         King's Third Australian Coastal Survey:
Circumnavigation North from Port Jackson aboard HMS "Mermaid"
15th June to 9th December 1820 		 
        Port Bowen
20th July to 22nd July 1820		 
        Endeavour River
27th July 1820		 
        Lizard Island to Cairncross Island
5th August to 15th August 1820
 
        South Goulburn Island
21st August to 26th August 1820		 
        Sim's Island
26th August 1820		 
        Montague Sound to York Sound and Port Frederick Harbour
5th September to 20 September 1820		 
        Repairs at Careening Bay, Port Nelson
21st September to 9th October 1820		 
        Bat Island and Brunswick Bay
1820		 
        Port Nelson to Port Jackson
14th October to 19th December 1820		 
        The lamented demise of Sir Joseph Banks
1820		 
        The "Mermaid" is condemned and is replaced by the "Bathurst"
1821 		 
        King's Fourth Australian Coastal Survey:
Northward from Port Jackson aboard HMS "Bathurst"
26 May 1821 to 25 April 1822 		 
        Port Jackson Northward to the Percy Isles
26th May to 13th June 1821		 
        Cape Grafton to Hanover Bay
17th June to 6th August 1821		 
        Mauritius
6th August to 15th November 1821		 
        King George's Sound
23rd December 1821 to 6 January 1822		 
        Bathurst Island
13th January 1822		 
        Dirk Hartog's Island
20th January to 26 January 1822		 
        Cygnet Bay
9th February 1822		 
        Port Jackson
25th April 1822		 
        Thus terminated Mr Cunningham's four years' voyages with Captain King
25th April 1822 		 

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

TIME LINE | ENDNOTES | PLANT INDEX | PLANT SEARCH

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