Document information

Physical location:

ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 79.05.12

Plant names

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1879-05-12. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id//letters/1870-9/1879/79-05-12-final.odt>, accessed June 4, 2026

12/5/79.
Can you kindly inform me, dear Mr Ramsay, whether more than one of the Cicads secretes the sap of & perhaps other Eucalypts in the form of so called Manna, and what the accurate name of these insects is?
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller
Perhaps Mr McLeay
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W. J. Macleay.
may know.