In what year was the man who sent three specimens of desert rat-kangaroo to John Gould born?
Desert rat-kangaroo The desert rat-kangaroo ("Caloprymnus campestris"), also called the buff-nosed rat-kangaroo, plains rat-kangaroo or oolacunta, is an extinct small hopping marsupial endemic to desert regions of Central Australia. It was discovered in the early 1840s and described by John Gould in London in 1843, on the basis of three specimens sent to him by George Grey, the governor of South Australia at the time.
Stephen David Durrant Stephen David Durrant (1902–1975) was an American mammalogist from Salt Lake City, Utah and past president of the American Society of Mammalogists known for his work with pocket gophers of the genus "Thomomys" and other rodents of the Great Basin. The "foremost mammalogist in Utah," he was professor of zoology at the University of Utah for over 40 years.