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THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT ALSO TO LOOK AT KIP FENN, A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE 21st CENTURY - freely available on this site Cunningham, Allan ___ 1791-1839 ___ British ___ naturalist explorer BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY Cunningham was born in Wimbledon, near London, and studied at Putney. He tried training for the law but preferred to take a position as clerk at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was chosen by Joseph Banks to travel abroad to collect plants for the Kew. He was in Brazil between 1814 and 1816, and then went to Australia. He joined John Oxley's 1817 expedition to the Lachlan and Macquarie rivers; and he travelled on HMS Mermaid between 1817 and 1820, as the ship's botanist. He also undertook an expedition to what is now Canberra in 1824, and visited New Zealand in 1826. In subsequent years, he set out from the upper Hunter River to explore inside the Dividing Range (he is credited with discovering Darling Downs and Cunningham's Gap) and the Brisbane River. Cunningham returned to England in 1831, but went back to Australia as a government botanist in 1837. Soon after he resigned to become superintendent of the Sydney Botanical Gardens. His name was given to a species of pine tree (Araucaria Cunninghamii). One biography link DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS 1817-1818 ___ travel nature exploration Australia WEB TEXT LINKS etext one nice quote ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS Natural History Museum SOME PUBLISHED TITLES Early Explorers in Australia November 2005 THIS IS THE DIARY JUNCTION - DATA AND LINKS FOR OVER 500 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY DIARISTS Please email if you have any corrections, additions or comments.

IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.

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