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expedition down the Lachlan river, and on his return he ac- 
companied Captain Philip Parker King in his four voyages 
of survey on the north and north-western coasts of New Hol- 
land. In these voyages he made some interesting collections. 
Mr. Cunningham afterwards visited New Zealand, Van Die- 
men's Land, and Norfolk Island, and also took several jour- 
nies through the Liverpool Plain district and the Moreton 
Bay country, the whole of which were equally fruitful in a 
botanical as well as in a geographical point of view, Mr. Cun- 
ningham being the original discoverer of the pass into the 
Liverpool Plains, and also connecting the Moreton Bay coun- 
try with the colony of Sydney. 
** In 1830 Mr. Cunningham returned to England after 
an absence of seventeen years, and on the unfortunate death 
of his brother Mr. R. Cunningham, who was killed by the 
natives while with Major Sir T. L. Mitchell’s expedition to 
the Darling River, he accepted the appointment of Colonial . 
Botanist, which his brother had held, and returned to Aus- 
tralia in 1837. The situation not affording him those oppor- 
tunities of research that he had anticipated, he resigned it at 
the end of the year, and in May, 1838, embarked for New 
Zealand, where he remained till October, when he returned 
to Sydney in a very debilitated state of health, from his con- 
stant exposure to the rains of that climate during the winter 
season. From that time his constitution continued gradually 
to break up, till death relieved him of his sufferings.” 
_ In this gentleman both Geography and Botany have sus- 
tained a real loss; for he was an intelligent and most indus- 
trious traveller, and an excellent practical Botanist. How 
little he regarded posthumous fame is seen by the fewness of 
his published works, a brief sketch of the Flora of New 
Zealand being the only systematical account of his Botanical 
discoveries printed during his life; how much he has done to 
merit the grateful remembrance of 
all his scientific friends. 
regret with him that the 
made by him in the earlier part of his career should never 
have been either published or distributed among Botanists, 
but he had no control over their disposal, which rested with 
other persons. Of the Australian collections however, which 
were his private property, the use was most liberal, and many 
are the herbaria, the richest part of whose New Holland 
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