To Edward Ramsay   6 January 1886

6/1/86.

 

Can you kindly give me the name, dear Mr Ramsay, of the Kangaroo-Rat, which frequents the Sandhills of Central Australia and lives much on the grain of Triodia irritans. The autochthones of the desert call it "Cudminka"1

With best felicitations to the new year

your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Triodia irritans

1
Not identified. See also M to E. Ramsay, 4 March 1886 (in this edition as 86-03-04a).

Please cite as “FVM-86-01-06a,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-01-06a