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SIR JOSERH /M.YA'S. 
luul tliereupon Allan CAmningham was sent to Brazil in 1814, where 
he made large collections. Here he remained two years, collecting in 
the vicinity of Rio, the Organ Mountains, San Paulo, and other parts 
of Brazil, making large collections of dried specimems, living plants, and 
seeds. Sir Joseph Banks wrote that his collections, especially of 
orchids, bromeliads, and bulbs, “did credit to the expedition and 
honour to the Royal Gardens.” 
When this service came to an end, he was nominated for service in 
New South Wales. Cunningham’s “ Manuscript Journal ” is marked 
1814 on the outside, and was doubtless obtained tor Brazil. The 
Sydney entries begin at page 139, and he refers to “Rio, September 20th, 
1816,” and records that he landed at Port Jackson, 21st December. 
1816. At prge 148, he collects at Woolloomooloo. The instructions of 
the Secretary of State (Earl Bathurst), dated 18th April, 1816, as 
regards vegetable products, are as follows, and these instructions 
Cunningham attended to in his “ Journal ” : — 
The vegetables, and particularly those that are applicable to anj' useful purpose, 
whether in medicine, dyeing, etc., any scented woods, or such as may be adapted 
for cabinet work, or furniture, and more particularly such woods as may appear 
to be useful in shipbuilding ; of all which it would be desirable to procure small 
specimens, labelled and numbered, so that an easy reference may be made to 
them in tbs “ Journal,” to ascertain the quantities in which they are found, and 
the situations in which they grow.* 
E.vclusive of yourself and Mr. Evans. I have deemed it advisable to |>erniit 
Mr. Allan Cunningham, one of tlie King’s botanists (lately sent out to this country 
for the purpose of collecting plants and seeds for His Majestj'‘s Gardens at Kewi, 
to accomiiany the expedition. (Governor Macquarie's instructions to Oxley, 
dated 24th March, 181 7. )t 
Under the same date, op. cit., p. 362. Governor Macquarie gives the 
designations: — “Mr. Allan Cunningham. King’s Botanist; Charles 
Fraser, Colonial Botanist.” Oxley’s e.xpedition left Sydney on 6th 
April, 1817, and arrived at Bathurst on the 14th. The chart which 
accompanies Oxley’s “Journals,” &c., is dated. The expedition pain- 
fully explored the Macquarie and Lachlan Rivers, returning to Bathurst 
on 29th August. In this expedition Cunningham collected about 450 
species of plants, many of which are still extant. Mt. Cunningham 
was called after him (Oxley, “Journals,” &c., pages 29-34), and at par*' 
164 is a record of the journey over the Blue Mountains; on 9th April 
they came upon the heap of stones supposed to mark the furthermost 
limit of Caley’s progress o"er the Blue Alountains. and which Governor 
Macquarie, in his journey over the mountains in 1815. had erroneously 
named “ Caley’s Repulse.” 
* Oxley, “ Journals, itc.,” p. 360. 
t Ib., 356. 
