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Cunningham says of this letter (B. S., p. 36) :— 
“This I shall guard as I would the gne — of the religion in which I h 
been educated: it is the word of a dyin n, whose liberality had fallen 
alike on the just and unjust, whose Adi i ин none we us ^ нен more experience ; 
and if, from a sight of it, I can from time to time call up t ourteous spirit of its 
illustrious writer to regulate my own frame of mind in ie * jostlings of the world,’ 
literally, I shall be a happy man.” 
Allan Cunningham introduced a proome of new plants. ` Amongst 
me was Araucaria Cunninghamii, which is now a conspicuous feature 
in the Temperate House, and Laportea Өг, an arborescent stinging 
bitte (1826). Smith says rather drily (Records, p. 68) :—“ Its power- 
“ ful stinging ee eae however, led it to meet with general ill-will 
“ from the men, and as ied suddenly it is есте to have been 
* wilfully killed. It his not since been introduced.” The fine 
Archontophema Cunninghamii (Seaforthia Чон) in the Palm 
House was in ar by him in 1826. He found the anomalous 
cycad, Bowenia spectabilis in Queensland, indicis its real affinity was 
not ascertained till many years after. 
Allan Cunningham returned to England in 1831. But he again left 
in 1836 to fill the post of id^ aw tendent. of the Sydney ne 
en, vacant through the death of his brother Richard, who w 
killed by natives while on Major Mitchell’s expedition to discover the 
souree of the Darling river in 1835. Allan Cunningham himself only 
lived to 1839. Не was a remarkable and an industrious man. His 
numerous manuscripts, as well as his private herbarium, are preserved 
at Kew. 
Prince REGENT. 
The King’s malady had become permanent in 1810. From this time 
for the next 30 years Kew, undoubtedly, though with some spasmodic 
a at recovery, went steadily down hill. To quote Scheer (pp. 22, 
23) — 
“During the non-intercourse with the аа хе arts of peace were in а 
somewhat dormant state in En gland ; save science (chemistry) sprung 
rapidly into notice, and became, in the Ga ni. of a a master ind — 
H iu 
"Pi ent. 
which had so much interested his Royal parents з ОСА, mperial 
Royal guesis put in many applications for specimens of this then unique collection 
of plants, and the Prince delighted in полый thei ir wishes ; and an active inter- 
cou ith the managers of for 
while resumed.” 
To this revival the part taken by Kew in the ill-fated expedition to 
the Congo may perhaps be attributed. 
Daviv LOCKHART. 
rt was a native of Cumberland, and а gardener at Kew. He 
sailed in February 1816 as assistant to Christian Smith, the botanist, in 
staff, and * went farther than any of the expedition to K 
a number of plants, such as Gardenia longiflora and о 
е e of ме. pene was published in 1818.. Christian 
Smith a Dane. ira with Von Buch whom he 
. had met at the house of LI Banks, He wasoffered by the latter 
