> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 505](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33266182) of TL-2 Suppl. IV > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/17581-1) LSID 17581-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3017793) QID Q3017793 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] > [!example] See also [[Cunningham, David Douglas|first entry]] for this author ### Author \* Cunningham, David Douglas (1843-1914), British pathologist, naturalist and bacteriologist, born in Prestonpans, E. Lothian, studied at the University of Edinburgh, M.D. ib. 1867, entered the Indian Medical Service 1861 until 1878, professor of physiology in Calcutta 1871-1898, retired because of ill health, lived in Torquay from 1898. **Abbreviated name**: *D.D. Cunn.* \[standard form in IPNI: *D.D.Cunn.*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection BM|BM]] (21 microscope-slides and specimens, type material of *Mycoidea parasitica*, see G. Murray, Hist. coll. nat. hist. depts. Brit. Mus. 1: 142. 1904). – D.H. Kent, Brit. herb. 1957 mentioned 5000 specim. "(?)[[Collection TOR|TOR]]". #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 200-201, 230, 308; Barnhart 1: 404 (b. 29 Sep 1843, Prestonpans, d. 31 Dec 1914, Tormount, Torquay); BB p.79-80; BM 1: 406, 6: 242; CSP 7: 470, 9: 617, 12: 179, 14: 428; Desmond p. 164 (b. 29 Sep 1843, Prestonpans, d. 31 Dec 1914, Torquay, Devon, also other details); De Toni 1: xxvii-xxviii; Frank 3(Anh.): 21; GR p. 370; GR cat. p. 62; Jackson p. 82, 165, 167; Kew 1: 660-661; LS 6423-6432; LS suppl. 5945-5952; Morren ed. 10, p. 144; NAF 7(15): 1057; Rehder 1: 150, 153; Stevenson p. 1239; Tucker 1: 181. #### Biofile - Anon., Nature 99: 536-537. 1915. - Bullock, W., Hist. bacteriology 360. 1938. - Bridson, G.D.R. et al., Nat. hist. mss. res. Brit. Isl. 269. 121. 1980. - Huxley, L., Life letters J.D. Hooker 80, 101, 492, 527. 1918. - Kent, D.H., Brit. herb., collectors 50. 1957 (TOR(5000)). - Prain, D., Proc. Linn. Soc. London 1914/15: 24-26. 1915; Proc. Roy. Soc. ser. B 89: xv-xx. 1915. #### Composite works - (1) *In* G. King, The *species of Ficus* of the Indo-malayan and Chinese countries... Calcutta, 1857-1858; Appendix 1859: p. 13-53. by D.D. Cunningham (see below). ### Publications ##### n.28.435. Mycoidea parasitica **Title** On *Mycoidea parasitica*, a new genus of parasitic Algae, and the part which it plays in the formation of certain lichens... Extracted from the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series – Botany... \[1879\]. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1879 (in journal, read 21 Jun 1877), p. \[301\]-316, *pl. 42-43* (col. liths.). *Copy*: L. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot. ser. 2. 1(6): 301-316, *pl. 42-43*. 1879. – *Mycoidea* (Chlorophyta), see ING 2: 1131. 1979. ##### n.28.436. occurrence **Title** On the *occurrence* of *conidial fructification* in the *Mucorini*, illustrated by Choanephora... Extracted from the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Second Series. -Botany... 1879. Qu. **Notes** *Publ*.: Jan 1879 (in journal), p. 409-422, *pl. 47* (uncol. lith.). *Copies*: L, NY. – Reprinted and to be cited from Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot. ser. 2. 1(6): 409-422, *pl. 47*. 1879. ##### n.28.437. phenomena **Title** On the *phenomena* of *fertilization* in *Ficus Roxburghii* Wall.... \[Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta... 1899\]. Fol. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1889, p. \[i\], \[13\]-51, \[53\], *pl. 1* (uncol. phot.), *pl. 2-5* (col. liths.). *Copies*: BR, L; IDC 1029/2. – Reprinted and to be cited from Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 1(App.): 13-53, *pl. 1-5*. 1889. ##### n.28.438. life-history **Title** Notes on the *life-history* of *Ravenelia* sessilis, B. and Ravenelia stictica, B. and Br. ... Calcutta (printed by the superintendent of Government Printing, India) 1889. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1889 (p. 15 signed 23 Oct 1888), cover-t.p., p. \[1\]-15, *pl. 1-2* (uncol. liths. with text). *Copy*: G. – Reprinted and to be cited from Sci. Mem. Medical Officers of the Army of India, Mem. 4: 21-25. 1889. – CSP 14: 428. ##### n.28.439. causes of fluctuations in turgescence **Title** 1. The *causes of fluctuations in turgescence* in the motor organs of *leaves*. – 2. A new and *parasitic* species of *Choanephora*... Calcutta (Royal Botanical Gardens, Annals) 1895. Fol. **Abbreviated title**: *Fluct. turg. leaves*. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1895 (Nat. Nov. Oct (2) 1896), p. \[i\*, iii\*, v\*\], \[i-ii\], \[1\]-161, \[i\*\*\], 163-174, *pl. 1-9 *(col.). *Copies*: BM, HH, MO, U. – Issued as Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 6(1). 1895. ##### n.28.440. Indian wheat-rusts **Title** A note on *Indian wheat-rusts*... from Records of the Botanical Survey of India... 1896. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Indian wheat-rusts*. **Notes** *Co-author*: David Prain (1857-1944), see TL-2/4: 376-379. *Publ*.: 1896 (printed 2 Sep 1896, see p. 124), cover-t.p., p. \[i\], \[79\]-124. *Copies*: G, L, NY, U. – Issued as Rec. Bot. Surv. India 1(7). 1896.