Collection Record

letter, 08/03/1935, H D Skinner to Sir Frederick Chapman, 28 Eccleston Hill Wellington., Advises that the Institute had nominated Dr Marshall should Sir Frederick not been able to act. Discusses Leakey's book and the resultant additions to the Museum's display. Mentions a further gift of material found on Otago beaches, and likens it to the ten thousand pieces brought back to the museum from Little Papanui. Advises that Dr Keppel of the Carnegie Institute has granted 100 pounds towards the excavation of the moa hunter site on the south side of the Waitaki at its mouth.