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These are the main facts in the life of a man whose scientific eminence 
was early recognised by the Fellowship of the Royal Society of London. 
The Universities of Dublin, Oxford, St Andrews, and Glasgow conferred 
on him their honorary degrees. He was President of the Anthropological 
Section of the British Association at the Glasgow meeting of 1901, deliver- 
ing on that occasion a suggestive address on the influence of the brain in 
the development of the human race. He also served as President of the 
Royal Anthropological Institute (1908), of the Anatomical Society of Great 
Britain and Ireland (1895), and of the Royal Academy of Medicine of 
Ireland (1902). 
Cunningham’s scientific work is marked by accuracy, lucidity, and a 
great sanity of judgment. In both public and private life his human 
sympathy and beauty of character shone through all he undertook. To 
know him was to love him. Inspired with a high sense of the duties and 
responsibilities of the position he occupied, he brought into the wide world 
which formed his environment all the strong and delicate traits of mind 
and heart which go to the making of the highest type of civilised man. 
Some of his scientific work has been touched on incidentally in the 
foregoing paragraphs. It remains to indicate in the following list of 
papers and addresses the character of the more important of these. For 
convenience of reference the writings are grouped according to the Journal 
or Transactions in which they were published. 
A. “Challenger” Reports. 
1. Reports on some points in the Anatomy of the Thylacine ( Th . cyno- 
cephalus), Cuscus ( Phalangista maculata), and Phascogale ( Ph . calura), 
collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger in the years 1873-1876; 
with an account of the Comparative Anatomy of the Intrinsic Muscles of 
the Mammalian Pes. 1882. 192 pages; 13 plates. 
In tlie material supplied, in addition to eight specimens of the animal mentioned 
above, there were three specimens of Dasyurus viverrimus , the Tasmanian Devil, the 
anatomy of which was not discussed in the same detail as in the other less familiar 
species. 
B. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. 
2. The Lumbar Curve in Man and in the Apes. The second 
“ Cunningham Memoir.” 1886. 148 pages. 
This is regarded as one of his most important papers. He showed how necessary 
it was to consider the influence of the intervertebral discs in the constitution of the 
curves, and how very erroneous conclusions might be drawn from a study of macerated 
skeletons where the discs had disappeared. 
