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animals, and man}^ of the improvements of recent years in 

 Phoenix Park were due to his initiative and zeal. Naturally 

 he took an especial interest in the Anthropoids, and many 

 who read these lines will recall a popular lecture in which — 

 taking as his text Sindbad, the orang-utan which had lived for 

 six j^ears in the " Zoo " — he expounded some of the far-reach- 

 ing conclusions to which his own researches had so signally 

 contributed. All the scientific life of Dublin benefited by his 

 services. He was a Vice-President of the Royal Irish Academy, 

 and for several years an Honorary Secretary of the Royal 

 Dublin Society. The foundation of the Anthropometrical 

 Laboratory in Trinity College was pre-eminently due to him. 



No surprise was felt when, on the appointment of Sir 

 William Turner to the Principalship of Edinburgh University 

 in 1903, Cunningham was recalled to the Scottish capital to 

 occupy the vacant chair. None of his friends imagined that 

 his tenure of that great office would last but for a few years, and 

 that, at the early age of fifty-nine, in the height of his powers, 

 he would be called awa3^ The writer of this notice had the 

 sad privilege of hearing the news of his death from the lips of 

 his former teacher, Sir William Turner, during the Darwin 

 centenary celebrations at Cambridge. There was fitness in the 

 coincidence, for few naturalists have contributed more lasting 

 work than Cunningham towards the study of human relation- 

 ships, which Darwin initiated. A great anatomist, a great 

 naturalist, a mOvSt capable man of busineSvS, and a Christian 

 gentleman, Cunningham leaves to the men who strive to carr>' 

 on those varied activities to which he devoted himself while 

 in Dublin a manifold inspiration. 



In compiling this notice acknowledgment is due to the 

 biography of Cunningham contributed to the Dublin Journal 

 of Medical Sciejice by his pupil and successor, Prof. A. F. Dixon, 

 who has most kindly lent the block for the accompanying 

 excellent photograph. 



G. H. C 



