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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

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

CONTENTS of PART 6

CONTENTS

Part 6 : covers the period February 1831 to his memorial in 1839
This extract from Heward's Part 3, begins at page 263 of The London Journal of Botany
Volume I 1842.

        Homeward Bound aboard the "Forth" from Sydney to Portsmouth
25th February 1831		 
        Cape Horn
14th April 1831		 
        A sail in sight
20th May 1831		 
        26 degrees west
27th May 1831		 
        The "Royal Admiral" outward bound from Port Jackson
9th June 1831		 
        A brig, "Three Sisters", outward bound from Bahia
1831		 
        A French brig is seen in the distance
1831		 
        The fellow passengers aboard the "Forth"
had known each other for years		 
        London
Mid July 1831		 
        Strand-on-the-Green near Kew
July 1831 to October 1836		 
        Charles Fraser, Colonial Botanist at Port Jackson, dies
December 1831		 
        Richard Cunningham's death, April 1835, is confirmed in London
May 1836		 
        Allan accepts the position of Colonial Botanist
at Port Jackson		 
        Departed England on the "Norfolk", never to return
30th October 1836		 
        Disappointment ahead, in Port Jackson
1837		 
        Arrival in Port Jackson
12th February 1837		 
        Commencement of duties as Colonial Botanist
1 March 1837		 
        Resignation from position of Colonial Botanist
December 1837		 
        A request for a report of the state of
the Botanic Garden		 
        Governor Gipps arrives
23rd February 1838		 
        Allan departs for New Zealand aboard the French corvette "L'Héroine"
15th April 1838		 
        Mr Cunningham returns to Sydney in a most deplorable state of health 13th October 1838
 
        Staying with a friend in Elizabeth Street Sydney
1838		 
        Cunningham has a specimen of the rarest of all birds the Kiwi 
        Too ill to sail with Captain Wickham on the "Beagle"
10th November 1838		 
        The termination of the life of this truly estimable man
27th June 1839		 

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

TIME LINE | ENDNOTES | PLANT INDEX | PLANT SEARCH

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