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minghame, James, or Cunningham (A. 1709?): Surgeon ti 

 Hon. E. I. C., at Amoy, 1698-1708. F.R.S,, 1099. Sent pi. 



from China, Malacca, Cape, and Ascension to Ray, Petiver, and 

 Plukenet; now in Herb. Sloane, at Mns. Brit. Pnlt. ii. 59-G2; 

 Pritz. 73; Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 440; Plukenet, ' Amaltkeum,' 

 and « Phytographia ' ; Petiver, « Museum ' ; Sloane MSS., 3322 

 & 4041 ; Diet. Nat. Biog. xiii. 312. Cunninyhcunia Scbreb. = 

 Malanea Aubl. Cunning ha mia R. Br. 



.nningham, Allan (1791-1839) ; b. Wimbledon, Surrey, 18th 

 July, 1791; d. Sydney, 27th June, 1839; bur. in Scottish 

 Church, Sydney. Employed on ' Hortus Kewensis,' circ. 1808. 

 Kew Collector, 1814-1831. At Rio, with James Bowie, 1814- 

 1816; at Sydney, 1816-1826; in New Zealand, 1826. Returned 

 to England, 1831. Colonial Botanist and Superintendent, Bot. 

 Card., Sydney, 1836-38. Visited New Zealand, 1838. ' Fl. 

 Ins. Novae Zelandiae', Mag. Zool. Bot. 1838, 210, bequeathed to 

 Heward and presented to Kew. Pritz. 73 ; Jacks. 400. Life 

 by Heward in Journ. Bot. 1842, w. litho. pork, by J. Robinson. 

 Coloured copy at Linn. Soc. Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 440 ; Diet. 

 Nat. Biog. xiii. 308. Allania Benth. Cunnint/h'imia R. Br. 



nningham, Richard (1793-1835) : b. Wimbledon, 12th Feb- 

 ruary, 1793 ; murdered by natives in interior of Australia, circ. 

 April, 1835. Brother of Allan. Employed on « Hortus Kew- 

 ensis,' circ. 1808. Colonial Botanist and Superintendent of Bot. 

 Gard. Sydney, 1833-1835. Pritz. 73; Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 

 (1826) 210, w. litho. portr. fr. one by McNees, belonging to Sir 

 W. J. Hooker; R. S. C, ii., 105. Gard. Chron. 1881, ii. 440; 



Nat. Biog. xiii. 317. 



Mag. Zool. Bot. i. (1887), 210; Diet. 



Curnow, William Id. 1887); d. Penzance, 24th January, iaa/. 

 Of Penzance. Contributed to Phyt. i., and to Keys' Fl. Devon 



and Cornwall. _ . 



Currey, Frederick (1819-1881) : b. Norwood, Surrey, 19th 

 August, 1819; d. Blackheath, 8th September, 1881; bur. at 

 Weybridge. Fungologist. M.A.,Camb M 1844. F.L.S., 1856. 

 Secretary, 1860-80. Treasurer, 1880. F.R.S., 1858. Trans- 

 lated Schacht's 'Das Mikroscop,' 1853, and Hofmeister's 

 'Higher Cryptogamia,' 1862. Edited Badham's 'Esculent 

 Funguses,' 1863 ; ' Fungi of Greenwich,' Phyt. 1854. Collec- 

 tion of Fungi at Kew, Pritz. 73 ; Journ. Bot. 1881, 310 ; 

 Proc. Linn. Soc. 1881-2, 59; Gard. Chron. 1881, n. 412; 

 Diet. Nat. Biog. xiii. 341 ; R. S. C, ii. 108. Photo, portr. at 

 Linn. Soc. 



Curtis, Samuel (1779-1860): b. Walworth, Surrey, 1779; d. La 

 Chaire, Rozel, Jersey, 6th January, 1860. Florist at W alworth. 

 Married a dau. of William Curtis in 1801. Became proprietor 

 of Bot. Mag. Lived at Glazenwood, Coggeshall, Essex, ami at 

 La Chaire. F.L.S., 1810. Pritz. 73; Jacks. 536; Proc. 

 Linn. Soc. 1860, xxii. ; Cott. Gard. xxiii. 335 ; Diet. Nat. biog. 



i7<ir;_i7ap\ • h. Alton. Hants, 1746 ; d. Bromp- 



xm. 349. 



William 



