THE BANKSIAN BOTANICAL COLLECTORS. 
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It is to be found in Captain P. P. King’s “ Narrative of a Survey,” &c., 
vol. i', pp. 497-533, and a few copies were separately printed for 
private circulation. 
Captain King’s work was published in 1827, and a resume of Cun- 
ningham’s work was published in German, mrder the following title ; — 
“ Einige allgemeine Bemerkungen iiber de Vegetation, vorziiglich 
der Nordwestkiiste von Austrahen. Oken, Isis, xxi, 1828, col. 172-175.” 
Cunningham kept a journal of voyages, which he inscribed “ Journal 
More Particularly Referring to Botanical Subjects, Formed During 
Voyage of Discovery on the X. and X.W. Coasts of Australia, on board 
H.M.’s cutter ‘ Mermaid,’ P. P. King, Esq., Lieutenant and Com- 
mander.” 
A rough draft of a portion of this journal is in the Public Library, 
Sydney, having been presented by the Director of the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, but the complete, annotated journal, replete with botanical 
data, is in the library at Kew, and if it had been published fifty years 
ago it would have been of great value to Australian botanical science, 
and would have increased Cunningham’s reputation. But, although 
the ground he traversed is no longer “ terra incognita,” it would be 
a valuable contribution to Australian historico-g ogiaphical literature 
if a rich man would arise and publish the Kew volumes, with explana- 
tory notes, after the fashion of the Hakluyt Society. 
In March, 1820, in an interval between these voyages, Cunningham 
accompanied the naturalist, M. Stein, and the painter, M. Karneyeck, 
of a Russian expedition. They crossed the Blue Mountians, and were 
absent ten days. 
Banks wrote to him, 14th April, 1820, a few weeks before his death : — 
I have received safe and in good condition the numerous tilings you have sent 
me, and the Royal Gardens have materially benefited by what we had from 
you I write you a short letter because I am not well. I know of 
nothing more to say to you than that I entirely approve of the whole of your 
conduct, as does also our worthy friend, Aiton, at Kew.* 
Cunningham says of this letter : — 
This I shall guard as I would the essential points of the religion in which I have 
been educated ; it is the word of a dying nobleman, whose liberality had fallen 
alike on the just and unjust, whose kindness none of us can any more experience; 
and if, from a sight of it, I can from time to time call up the courteous spirit of 
its illustrious wTiter to regulate my own frame of mind in the “ jostlings of the 
world,” literally 1 shall be a happy man.f 
In August, 1822, Cunningham again visited Illawarra to collect 
living plants. Towards the end of September he started on an expedi- 
tion over the Blue Mountains, arriving at Bathurst on the 14th October. 
He botanised on the Macquarie, Cudgegong, and other districts, and 
* Keic Hulletiny 1891, 309. 
t Ib.y 310. 
