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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 4

CONTENTS

Part 4 : covers the period August 1826 to June 1828
This extract, from Heward's Part 1, begins at page 297 of The Journal of Botany
Volume IV 1842.

        New Zealand
28th August 1826 to 20th January 1827		 
        Paihia, Bay of Islands
9th September 1826		 
        Cowa-cowa (possibly Kawakawa River)
Early September 1826		 
        Hokianga, Kiddee Kiddee River (possibly Kerikeri River)
September 1826		 
        Hokianga River
25th September 1826		 
        Return to Paihia, Bay of Islands 2nd October 1826 
        Cowa-Cowa (possibly Kawakawa River) tributary of the
Wycaddy (possibly Waitangi)
17th October 1826		 
        Paihia, Bay of Islands
1826		 
        Whangaroa
1826		 
        The Bay of Plenty
1826		 
        Bay of Islands
1826		 
        Return to Port Jackson
20th January 1827		 
        Florae Insularum Novae Zelandiae Precursor is published 
        Exploration to the north western Interior and the
discovery of the Darling Downs
1827		 
        The proposal for an exploratory journey to the north western interior
19th February 1827		 
        Segenhoe
26th April to 30th April 1827		 
        Dumaresq River
1827		 
        The Darling Downs is discovered
5th June 1827		 
        Cannings Downs, Peels Plains
1827		 
        Mount Sturt
1827		 
        Logan's Vale
1827		 
        Mount Warning Ranges are Sighted
1827		 
        A practicable pass is seen in the distance
1827 (now known as Cunningham's Pass)		 
        Resumed his journey to the southward
16th June 1827		 
        Logan's Vale, Canning Downs
June 1827		 
        Dumaresq River
30th June 1827		 
        Gwydir River
9th July 1827		 
        Liverpool Plains
16th July 1827		 
        Field River
19th July 1827		 
        A week in Segenhoe then homeward via Mount Dangar to Bathurst
5th August 1827		 
        Plains of Daby onward to Bathurst and Parramatta
16th August 1827 to 31st August 1827		 
        Report to the Governor Lieut.-General Darling at Parramatta
1st September 1827		 
        Bathurst, Macquarie River, Illawarra
January to February 1828		 
        Request to return home to England
1828		 

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

TIME LINE | ENDNOTES | PLANT INDEX | PLANT SEARCH

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