Biographical entry Cunningham, Allan (1791 - 1839)

Summary

Allan Cunningham was sent by Joseph Banks to New South Wales in 1816 to collect plants on John Oxley's expedition to the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers in 1817. He was botanist on the "Mermaid" 1817-1820 and made inland explorations of New South Wales.

Details

Events

1817

Taxonomy event - Description of Eucalyptus acmenoidesSchau. (1843). Cunningham was collector of the type

1843

Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus melliodora A. Cunn. Ex Schau. (1843)

1843

Taxonomy event - Description of Eucalyptus oligantha Schau. (1843). Cunningham was collector of the type

1843

Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus coriacea A. Cunn. Ex Schau. (1843) (= Eucalyptus Pauciflora Sieb. Ex Spreng. (1827))

1843

Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus clavigera A. Cunn. ex Schau. (1843)

1848

Taxonomy event - Described Eucalyptus bicolor A. Cunn. Ex Hook. (1848) (= Eucalyptus largiflorens F. Muell. (1855))

1867

Taxonomy event - Description of Eucalyptus cinerea F. Muell. ex Benth. (1867). Cunningham was collector of the type.

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

• Allan Cunningham - Records, 1827 - 1832, D79; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Allan Cunningham - Records, 1828 - 1830, ML MSS 1374; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Allan Cunningham - Records, 1819 - 1822, FM 4/3104; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Allan Cunningham - Records, 1814 - 1839, FM 4/3101; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Allan Cunningham - Records, P2/C; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Ida Louisa Lee - Records, 1919 - 1937, ML MSS 337; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details
• Linnean Society of London - Records, 1792 - 1870, FM 4/2699; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection

• Allan Cunningham - Records, 1819, MS 4169; National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection. Details

State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection

• Allan Cunningham - Records, 1814 - 1939, M692; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details

Published resources

Books

• Curry, Suzanne; Maslin, Bruce; Maslin, John, Allan Cunningham: Australian Collecting Localities, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2002, 90 pp. Details
• Lee, Ida, Early Explorers in Australia, Methuen, London, 1925, 167-426 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Lucas, A. M., 'Allan Cunningham, 1791-1839', in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. Details
• Perry, T. M., 'Cunningham, Allan (1791-1839), botanist and explorer', in Douglas Pike (ed.), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 1, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966, pp. 265-267. Also available at http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010255b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

• Curry, Suzanne; Maslin, Bruce, 'Cunningham's Collecting Localities While Botanist on Lieutenant Phillip Parker King's Survey of Coastal Australia, December 1817 to April 1822', in Short, P.S. (ed.), History of Systematic Botany in Australasia: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at the University of Melbourne, 25-27 May 1988, Australian Systematic Botany Society, Melbourne, 1990, pp. 137-148. Details

Journal Articles

• Andrews, Alan E. J., 'Allan Cunningham and the Shy Ladies at Caley's Repulse', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 71, no. 2, 1985, pp. 143-150. Details
• Dalton, W., 'Allan Cunningham', Journal of Scone & Upper Hunter Historical Society, 1959, pp. 1-22. Details
• Froggatt, Walter W., 'The Curators and Botanists of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney.', Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. xviii, III, 1932, pp. 101-133. Details
• Hamilton, R.C., 'Allan Cunningham - with Special Reference to His Work in What is Now Queensland', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. xivi, vi, 1960, pp. 323-342. Details
• Hewart, R., 'Biographical Sketch of the Late Allan Cunningham, Esq., London. Reprinted from Journal of Botany, for Private Distribution, 1842.', 1842. Details
• Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Australian Botanists - (a) General, (b) New South Wales', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. xlii, 1908, pp. 60-132. Details
• Maiden, J.H., 'Records of Queensland Botanists', Australasian Association for Advancement of Science, vol. xii, 1909, pp. 373-383. Details
• Maiden, J.H. and Cambage, R.H., 'Botanical, Topographical and Geological Notes on Some Routes of Allan Cunningham', Journal and Proceedings of The Royal Society of New South Wales, vol. xliii, 1909, pp. 123-138. Details
• Willis, J.H., 'Botanical Pioneers in Victoria', Victorian Naturalist, vol. 66, 1949, pp. 83-89; 103-109; 123-107. Details

Online Resources

• 'Cunningham, Allan (1791-1839)', in Australian National Botanic Gardens - Biography, Australian National Botanic Gardens, 2004, http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/cunningham-allan.html. Details
• 'Cunningham, Allan', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-635233. Details

See also

• Endersby, Jim, 'A Garden Enclosed: Botanical Barter in Sydney, 1818-38', British Journal for the History of Science, vol. 33, 2000, pp. 313-334. Details