lains were collected by Lieutenant 
"^. and buried at Lower Tabratong, 
.Uandaloo, where a stone marks his last resting place. The 
_ e is on Hunt Brothers' Burdenda station. 
" Thus passed away a martyr to science, one whose usefulness to 
the colony was only just beginning to fully expand, and one who 
appears to have been endowed with a singularly agreeable 
disposition. His acienl as been largely over- 
shadowed by that of Allan, his distinguished brother. It is, 
ot course, impossible to say in what ,n,v.-ri,.n Richard, had he 
been spared would have made an impression on the Botanic 
Gardens, and on the hot u leal in. station of the colony, but we 
are perfectly justified in saying, from what he accomplish..-. 1, that 
his early death (followed as it was so soon by that of his brother) 
"During 1836 we find that that portion of the Domain between 
Macquane Street North and Macquarie Place was alienated 
primarily with a view to raise funds to build a new Government 
>* «»s not disposed to incur the 
.-J appointed to test Busbv's 
vmea. James Backhouse, the visiting Quaker philanthropist 
SL* ^ .? S a member 0f lt > and he writes:-' A large 
proportion of hem are wine grapes, but most of the varieties 
FreS f ° r he taWe in England are *™*g them under their 
Lad refused it some vears 
-t work at Kew on his Australian plants, 
in made to him on his brother's death. 
combined caused him to accept it. One 
?w ,fw? Sf d t0 again investi gate the Australian flora on the 
eSnWar th \?^ r ™ that on his long and arduous journeys of 
ZtZ n , 8 he l lth had so offered, that he thought a sea- 
Kew W nn d ,i a f e K° « g - , t0 the A ^tralian climate from that of 
StIbeT,°l U 836 be benefiCial t0 him ' H * Sailed for S ^ in 
earlv h hlfn n0t a ske !?b of Allan Cunningham's life, but of the 
therefor^ w L^*^™ Gardens ' and X wil1 co ^ent myself 
gardens. y touchin S u P on ^s connection with the 
Ga^l n^rf ^ n i F t brUary 12 ' 1837 ' and in ^e Government 
tx^tLfJ ?\ l ^ a PP oin tment as Colonial Botanist and 
Superintendent of the Botanic Garden was announced. 
mit^nf ™ n hG intei 7 g ™ th e Governor had appointed a com- 
rllmlwE ,■? P ° S i- , Its appointment formed one of the 
umist and explorer threw un his 
continued to act 
C overseer Kidd. When 
speedily arose, he being a strong 
