collect about 300 more species, some at King George's Sound 

 at Dampier's Archipelago, and at the Goulburn Islands. In 1818 

 he visited lUawarra, and accompanied Capt. King to Hobart 

 and Macquarie Harbour. While with Captain King, from 

 1818 to 1821, he obtained specimens of plans from Port 

 Macquarie, the Hastings River, Rodd's Bay, Percy Isles, Cleve- 

 land Bay, Halifax and Rockingham Bays, the Endeavour River, 

 Goulburn Island, the Vernon Islands, Cambridge Gulf, and Port 

 Wanderer, as well as many other places. In 1822 he made 

 collections at Illawarra, the Blue Mountains to the water-head 

 of the Macquarie, the Pandora Pass and Liverpool Plains. 

 In 1824 he collected at the sources of the Murrumbidgee and 

 many other places, including the Brisbane River. In 1825 he 

 collected on the Nepean and Hunter rivers, about Pandora Pass, 

 Liverpool Plains, Wellington Valley, Cox's River, etc., etc. 



In 1827-28, he again visited Moreton Bay with C. Fraser, 

 the then Colonial Botanist of N. 8. Whales, and collected about 

 Mount Lindsay, the Bremer River, and the Main Range, dis- 

 covering the pass known as Cunningham's Gap. In 1829 he 

 again collected on the Blue Mountains, Moreton Bay, the Bremer, 

 Campbell's Range, and the Illawarra, etc., etc. 



This brief sketch of Allan Cunningham's career, extracted 

 from Dr. Hooker's writings, gives some idea of how much we owe 

 to the zeal and perseverance of this great botanic explorer. 

 He held the position of Colonial Botanist of N. S. Wales from 

 1830 until the time of his death in 1839. Amongst his published 

 accounts of Australian plants, are the " Appendix to Capt. King's 

 Voyage," and a " Botany of the Blue Mountains, Bathurst and 

 the Liverpool Plains," published in Field's " Australia." Here 

 again the honor of a genus is divided between two botanists 

 of the same name ; for we are told that Dr. Robt. Brown in 

 naming the coniferous genus Cunninyhamia intended it to com- 

 memorate the merits of James Cunningham, who is said to 

 have died about 1709, and who discovered the plant, and Allan 

 Cunningham, the Australian botanist. His name, however, is well 

 known to Queenslanders as being attached to our " Hoop Pine," 

 Araucarla Cunningham Li, Ait. A genus of .luncaceae, Kuvjia, 

 R. Br., bears Capt. King's name. Several plants are named 



