CUMING

Hugh . b. West Alvington, Kings bridge, Devon 14 Feb. 1791; apprenticed to a sail maker; went to South America 1819; in busine at Val para i so 1819–26; cruised in the South Pacific and along Western coast of America collecting plants and shells 1826–29; cruised among islands of Philippine group where he collected 130,000 specimens of dried plants 1835–39; his collection of shells the largest and most valuable private one in existence contained 30,000 species and varieties; G. B. Sowerby named a genus of bivalved shells Cumingia after him 1833; F.L.S. d. 13 Gower st. London 10 Aug. 1865. Athenæum 19 Aug. 1865 pp. 247–8; Proc. of Royal Linnæan Soc. (1865–6) 57–9.