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Allan Cunningham : botanist and explorer / W.G. McMinn.
Record no.:
220
Author:
McMinn, W. G., 1930-;
Cunningham, Allan, 1791-1839;
Mermaid (Ship);
Publisher:
Carlton :: Melbourne University Press,
Year:
1970.
Description:
vii, 147 p., [2] p. of plates : ill., maps, port. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Cunningham, Allan, 1791-1839.;
Wellington Valley Mission (N.S.W.);
Plants - Northern Territory.;
Botanists Exploration.;
Plants - New South Wales.;
Settlement and contacts - Explorers.;
Botanists - Australia Biography.;
Botany - Australia - New South Wales.;
Explorers - Australia - Biography.;
Botany - New South Wales.;
Northern Territory - Discovery and exploration.;
Australia - Discovery and exploration.;
Australia - History - 1790-1840.;
Australia - Exploration.;
Australia - Description and travel.;
Australia.;
New South Wales - Discovery and exploration.;
Notes:
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 125-142.Copy 2 - donation from Tom Austen Brown collection
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0522839509;
Abstract:
Includes index.

Biography; includes brief references to contacts with Aborigines during exploration of various parts of Australia; Cunningham and Boongaree both accompanied Philip Parker King in the Mermaid in December 1817; mentions Cunningham
collecting Tasmanian vocabularies p. 41; description of rock paintings on Clack Island p. 45-6.
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