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exertion, laborious travel, and the excitement of an unbounded 
enthusiasm for the science to which he had devoted himself. 
He pressed onwards in his pursuits with a singleness of 
heart and purpose wbich never chequered his success, and 
with an unobtrusiveness too often the companion of high 
talent, and which, to the regret of those who know the rich 
stores of his mind, disinclined him from giving to the world 
during his life, material of information and delight. 
His remains were deposited, on the morning of the 2d of 
July, in the Scottish church at Sydney, where a monumental 
tablet, bearing an epitaph from the pen of his long-cherished 
companion, Captain King, marks the spot. 
The following extracts from the Sydney newspapers will 
be perused with much interest.—** There have been few men 
in this Colony who were more generally esteemed than the 
late Allan Cunningham, and his death was, consequently, 
much lamented. A statuary marble tablet to his memory 
has been erected in St. Andrew's Presbyterian church, having 
the following inscription: * ALLAN CunnineHaM, F.L.5. 
and M.R.G.S., associated in the pursuit of Botanical Dis- 
covery with Oxley in exploring the interior of New Holland; 
with King, in four times circumnavigating its coasts; and, by 
subsequent personal research, having more fully developed 
the Geography and Flora of the northern districts of this 
Colony and of Norfolk Island and New Zealand, he has left 
enduring monuments of devotion to the cause of science, and 
eminence in those branches which he most assiduously 
cultivated. Frank, unaffected, firm in principle, with warm 
feelings tempered by a most kind and benevolent heart, 
deservedly beloved by his friends, some of them in the fore- 
most rank of science, in England, France, and Germany; he 
died in unrepining submission to the will of God, and in a 
calm dependence on the merits of eg adorable Redeemer, 
on the 27th of June, 1839, aged 48." 
* Sydney Herald, Nov. 29th. 1839. 
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