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returning to Segenhoe on the 28th July. He received high compliments 
from the Governor on the 17th November, and it is to be regretted 
that this most accomplished explorer, the greatness of whose geographi- 
cal discoveries dwarfs those of his botanical discoveries, great as the 
latter were, rarely received anything else but compliments. Con- 
sidering the beggarly equipment with which he was always provided, 
and the mere handful of men who always formed his parties, the 
results that he obtained were remarkable, and redounded to the 
development and prosperity of Australia. It is difficult to apportion 
merit among the grand army of Australian explorers, but I know of 
none superior to Cunningham, and therefore hail Allan Cunningham 
as the prince of Australian botanical explorers. 
For details of this memorable journey see the Ato-lrnhini Quarff' lu 
Journal for January and April, 1828 (see also Lang’s “ Cooksland,” 
pages 60, 69, and 76). The titles of his papers are: — 
“ Brief View of the Progress of Interior Discovery in New South 
Wales. By Allan Cunningham, Esq.” Read 27th February and 12th 
March, 1832, before the Geographical Society, and published in its 
“ Journal ” for that year, pages 99-132 (with a map). 
In the Proo rihvi/x of tht' Geohuji al Sorieti/ of Lo'idon, vol. ii, 
1834-1835, No. 38, is the following entry : — 
“ December 17th. — The reading of a paper on the physical and geo- 
logical structure of the country to the west of the Dividing Range, 
between Hunter’s River (lat. .32° S.) and Moreton Bay (lat. 27° S.) ; 
with observations on the geologv of Moreton Bay and Brisbane River, 
New South Wales, bv Allan Cunningham, Esq., and communicated 
by W. H. Fitton, M.D., F.G.S.” 
The title of the published paper is : — “ On the Physical and Geo- 
logical Structure of the Country to the West of the Dividing Range, 
between Hunter’s River (lat. 32° S.) and Moreton Bay (lat. 27° S.), 
with Observations on the Geology of Moreton Bay and Brisbane River, 
New South Wales ” (1834). Goo'. Soc. Fnc., ii, 1838, pages 109-111. 
The remaining portion of the year, and January and February, 1828, 
were occupied in journeys to Bathurst, the pine ridges on the Macquarie, 
and to the Illawarra. 
In a “ Journal of a Two Months’ Residence on the Banks of the 
Rivers Brisbane and Logan, on the East Coast of New Holland,” 
by C. Fraser, Colonial Botanist (Hooker’s “ Botanical Miscellany,” 
vol. i, pages 237-269, 18.30), we find some notes of a further journey 
by Cunningham — this time accompanied by Fraser. They had, of 
course, been fellow-explorers in Oxley’s first expedition. They left 
Sydney, 7th June, 1828. Under date 1st July, Fraser says: — “At 
7 o’clock in the morning proceeded across Moreton Bay, in company 
