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Demonstrator in Anatomy. As Senior Demonstrator he took an important 
share in the removal of the Anatomical Department from the old to the 
new buildings in 1880, and in arranging the rooms for teaching purposes. 
Here he spent six years of strenuous work and continuous study, fulfilling 
not only his University duties but also during the last four years lecturing- 
on physiology in the Royal Veterinary College. Meanwhile, his love of 
research was evidenced by some dozen notes and papers communicated to 
the Journal of Anatomy and Physiology between 1873 and 1882, and 
still more by the publication in the last-named year of an elaborate 
Challenger Report. On the return of the Challenger Expedition in 
1876, Sir Wyville Thomson, under the advice of Sir William Turner, 
placed in Cunningham’s hands the marsupial animals collected during the 
voyage. In preparing the report on their anatomy he met a puzzling- 
modification in the arrangement of the muscles of the hand and foot, 
which led him to investigate the myology of those parts of the limbs in 
mammalia generally. This memoir established his reputation as an 
anatomist of the first rank. Some of the results had been published in the 
Journal of Anatomy and Physiology during the preparation of the Report, 
and it is not surprising that in the spring of 1882 he was elected Professor 
of Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin. 
In October 1883 he was transferred to the Anatomy chair in Trinity 
College, Dublin ; and during his twenty years’ tenure of this office 
Cunningham became by the simple force of his character a leading spirit. 
Into all that made for efficiency in university teaching and research he 
threw himself with devoted and single-hearted energy. Professor. A. F. 
Dixon, his successor in the Dublin chair, describes his master’s influence 
and work in these words 
“ Cunningham came to Trinity College at a very critical period in the 
history of her Medical School. The old medical buildings had long been 
inadequate for the requirements of her students, and the authorities of the 
College had become alive to the fact, thanks largely to the energy and 
zeal of the late Rev. Dr Samuel Haughton, F.R.S., Senior Fellow of Trinity 
College. The old spirit which regarded the school of physic as something- 
foreign to and outside the university was dying fast, and, like the wall 
which for so long a period had separated the Medical School from the rest 
of the College, was soon to completely disappear. It is needless to say that 
in every movement for the advancement of the School, and for the better 
housing and equipment of its departments, Cunningham took a leading- 
part, and assisted Haughton ably and enthusiastically. These gifted and 
able men became fast friends, and to their combined efforts the School of 
