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ther advanced to that situation of life where 
his great mental energies (which at Kew, 
from an absolute want of substantial intel- 
lectual occupation, sunk into a dormant 
condition) should find full employment ; 
and where an ample scope would be afford- 
ed for their more perfect expansion. A 
situation, in fine, where his talents gene- 
rally, and especially his knowledge of Bo- 
tany, which had long lain dormant, could be 
employed to the benefit of mankind, to the 
advancement of Science, and to the build- 
ing up of that honest fame and reputation 
to which his known character and abilities 
entitled him, and which all his real friends 
long wished to see conceded to him. 
Such a walk in life, just fitted to his ha- 
bits, and every way suitable to awaken his 
slumbering energies, was not long in being 
thrown open to his view. In May, 1832, 
the death of the late. Mr. Charles Fraser, 
Colonial Botanist and Superintendent of , 
the Botanic Garden at Sydney, was offici- 
ally announced by the Governor of the 
Colony to the Secretary of State, and the 
appointment thus vacated was given to Mr. 
R. Cunningham, upon the strong recom- 
mendation of Mr. Brown, who represented 
as an individual every way qualified 
for such a situation. In August of that 
year, he embarked! for New South Wales 
llowing extract from a letter written to the 
s he was to ren- 
in his power to Botany, and to his 
** Ship (cms x sue 
August 
ructions from him 
to look after Deesonis i in n all ia Pater; a leafless qua- 
drangular I 
enhmer 
V* ) near Sydney H 
1 
A» 
Sea-weeds of | all kinds ; dio Senis; of remarkable 
Woods, the same of Maai Plants oy 
the Trunk of the Australian Todea (which he is 
posed to consider specifically distinct from the A 
can); stems of Xanthorrheas, especi y the ioni. 
t- coast Grasses (for I to work, 
occasionally, on M West and South-western colo- 
; ed to differ from 7 
hamii, on Wilooe's s Promontory; and another at Pon 
A BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF 
with that appointment, the Secretary of : 
State having been pleased to make an in- 
Phillip, his (Mr. B.'s) variety Q- of B. integrifolia, but 
letters to your old friend, uis Honourable Mr. Mey, i 
Secretary to the Governor, with a parcel, containing 
eviews and other periodical works, in English and — — 
French, which he kindly permits me to peruse during 
the vo e. 
e" We a e now quite ready for starting, and having 
many hours 
great peu, — and we are now ví l 
to P» our situation, every one set- — 
to 
ting th ple t he best of existing ciromn- di 
stances. : 
** We hay EY a ng the d 
— whose communications, some of hea really ME 
tyle, afford us daily amusement after a 
ion; it eed required of the Surgeon, that he 
examine all their letters to their friends, to see that 
2 contain nothing objectionable. I ma Tam sony — 
0 say it, an Aide-du-Camp in the shape of a : 
d : He actually pulled me up the — T 
e, 
oa 
2 
^ 
a 
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foi him at least a little more T air, i 
s I will P in mind y commission wit 
respect. 
m, and shou ULM 
obtain res 
se that I have been enabled to — to his sister 
en to point out à 
j 
See: tells me the impression in 
The letters of introduction which you have 
favour of Science." 
