> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 503](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266180) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/1916-1) LSID 1916-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q545888) QID Q545888 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Cunningham, Allan|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Cunningham, Allan (1791-1839), British botanist, employed at Kew, working on Aiton's Hortus Kewensis circa 1808, collected for Kew 1814-1831, to Brazil with James Bowie 1814-1816, in Australia (Sydney) 1816-1826, collected wide, in New Zealand 1826, back to England 1831, superintendent of the Botanical garden Sydney 1836-1838. **Abbreviated name**: *A. Cunn.* \[standard form in IPNI: *A.Cunn.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection K|K]] (see TL-2/1: 572, via Robert Heward), further material at [[Collection AWH|AWH]], [[Collection B|B]] (692 nos.), [[Collection BM|BM]], [[Collection BR|BR]] (Martius), [[Collection CGE|CGE]], [[Collection E|E]], [[Collection E|E]]-GL, [[Collection FI|FI]] (herb. Webb), [[Collection G|G]], [[Collection GOET|GOET]], [[Collection L|L]], [[Collection LINN|LINN]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MEL|MEL]], [[Collection NSW|NSW]], [[Collection OXF|OXF]] (via Henry Heward), [[Collection PH|PH]], [[Collection W|W]], [[Collection WELT|WELT]]. #### Manuscripts Extract from Cunningham's accounts ms. Royal Herbarium, Sydney; see also TL-2/1: 572. #### Bibliography and biography AG 2(2): 359; Barnhart 1: 404; BB p. 79; BM 1: 405-406; Clokie p. 151-152; CSP 2: 104-105; Dawson p. 246-247; Desmond p. 164 (main source for our caption above, b. 13 Jul 1791, Wimbledon, d. 27 Jun 1839, Sydney); DNB 13: 308; Frank 3(Anh.): 21; GR p. 395; Hortus 3: 1191; HR; IF p. 692; IH 1 (ed. 6): 357, 2: 147; Jackson p. 400; Kew 1: 660; LS 6422; PR 1990-1991, ed. 1: 2080-2081; Rehder 5(index): 203; RS p. 79; SK 1: 122-123; TL-2/1: 572; Tucker 1: 181; Urban-Berl. p. 339; Zander ed. 10, p. 648, ed. 11, p. 737-738. #### Biofile - Anon., Flora 23: 208. 7 Apr 1840 (d.); Bot. Not. 1840: 144 (d.); London J. Bot. 5: - 661-662. 1846 (frontisp., monument). - Bagnall, A.G. and G.C. Petersen, William Colenso 484. 1948. - Bailey, F.M., Concise hist. Austral. bot., Roy. Soc. Queensland 8(2): 20-21. 1890-1891. - Beale, J.M., J. Scone Upper Hunter Hist. Soc. 1961: 203-207 (topology of A. Cunn. exp. 1827). - Bishop of Norwich, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1: 67-68. 1849. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. see p. 395. 1980. - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 406. 1880. - Carr, D.J. and S.G.M. Carr (eds.), People and plants in Australia 244. 1981 (portr.). - Carter, H.B., Sir Joseph Banks 630 (index). 1988. - Cheeseman, T.F., Manual N. Zeal. Flora xx-xxi. 1906. - Coats, A.M., The plant hunters 215-222, 231-233, 387. 1969. - Cockayne, L., Veget. New Zealand 2-3. 1921. - Dalev, C., Victorian Natural. 43: 165-169. 1926. - Diels, L., Pflanzenwelt West Australia, Veg. Erde 7: 44-45. 1906. - Fournier, E., *in* H.E. Baillon, Dict. bot. 2: 298. 1881. - Gager, C.S., Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Rec. 27(3): 158. 1938 (C. director Bot. Gardens N.S.W. 1837-1838). - Gardner, C.A., Handbook and review, science in W. Austr., Perth 1926, p. 41-42. - Gilbert, L., The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney 208 (index). 1986. - Glenn, R., Bot. explorers New Zealand 174. 1950 (brief note). - Gorer, R., Quart. Bull. alp. Gard. Soc. 40(1): 24-27. 1972. - Hall, N., Botanists of the Eucalypts, Melbourne 42-43. 1978 (portr., details on the way the Australian material of C. was brought together). - Haydock, D., Plant hunters in New Zealand, part 10, Hebe News 7(3): 16-19. 1992. - Hedge, I.C., and J.M. Lamond, Index coll. Edinburgh herb. 72. 1970. - Hertel, H., Mitt. Bot. Staatssamml. München 16: 355. 1980 (Lich. coll. M.). - Heward, Rob., J. Bot. (Hooker) 4: 231-280. Oct, 281-320. Nov 1841; London J. Bot. 1: 107-128, 263-292. 1842. - Hooker, J.D., Fl. Tasmania cxiv-cxvii. 1860. - Hunt Institution, Biogr. dict. bot. portr. coll. 89. 1972 (b. 13 Jul 1791, Wimbledon, Surrey, England, d. 27 Jun 1839, Sydney, N.S.W Australia). - Johnson, L.A.S., Contr. N.S.W. Natl. Herb. 3(3): 165-167. 1962 (see Robert Mudie, apparent copying from notes by C.). - Karg, A.L., Taxon 23(4): 614. 1974 (biogr. sketch in Hunt Inst.). - Lee, I., Early explorers in Australia, London 1925 (length extracts from C's journal (see p. 623-624 for notes)). - Lièvre, A. le, Allan Cunnigham: glimpses of the life of a King's botanist in Australia. Kew Mag. 5(4): 167-180. 1988 (portr.). - Lyte, C., Sir Joseph Banks 176, 240. 1980; The plant hunters 36-46, 182-183. 1983. - Mabberley, D.J., Taxon 27(5/6): 489-491. Nov 1978 (herb. of C., overlooked binomials, etc., major source); Jupiter Botanicus 477 (index). 1985. - Maiden, J.H., Kew Bull. 1906: 212, 214-216. 1906. - Maiden, J.H. and Cambage, R.H., J. Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. 43: 123-138, *pl. 5-7*. 1909. - McMinn, W.G., Allan Cunningham, botanist and explorer, Melbourne 1970, ix, 147 p. (portr., bibl., major source); Rec. Austral. Acad. Sci. 2(1): 1-9. 1970. - Milner, J.D., Cat. portr. Kew 31. 1906. (Hooker coll. at Kew). - Mitchell, G.H., J. Proc. Parramatta Distr. Hist. Society 4: 5-19 (unseen references). - Moyal, A., A bright and savage land 28, 47. 1986. - Murray, G., Hist. coll. nat. hist. depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 42. 1904 (presented by William Townsend Aiton). - Musgrave, A., Bibl. Austral. entomology 1775-1930: 59. 1932. - Norton, J., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 25: 770-774, 789. 1901. - O'Brian, P., Joseph Banks 297. 1987. - Robinson, J.E.H., Proc. Linn. Soc. 1888/90: 34. 1891 (water-colour portr.). - Sayre, G., Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 29(3): 308-309. 1975 (herb. and types). - Smith, E., Life Joseph Banks 276, 277. 1911. - Steinberg, C.A., Webbia 32(1): 22. 1977 (handwriting of C.). - Stewart, R.R., Taxon 33(1): 50. 1984 (d. in Australia, killed by aborigines while collecting, \[probably in error\], C. died of tuberculosis in Sydney on 27 Jun 1839). - Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Kew Bull. 1891: 309-310. - Urban, I., Fl. bras. 1(1): 14-15. 1906. - Wagenitz, G., Index coll. princ. herb. Gotting. 37-39. 1982 (herb. material at GOET). - Woodward, B.B., Hist. coll. nat. hist. depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 34. 1904 (two mss. of C.).