Southern Māori Archives Project

letter, 16/10/1934, E.J. Morris to W B Benham, Letter and response. Query aegrotat pass for student suffering from Influenza.

letter, 27/10/1934, Arthur A Paape to W B Benham, Moa bone found while digging at Tawanui ? And at Pouna? Moa bone and skull of Maori dog. Another Maori dog with teeth intact and grinding stones

letter, 02/12/1935 to Professor Percival, Congrats on employment of Maurice Bleakly. Do you know anyone I can replace him with?

letter, 28/02/1933 to Mr Powell, Sending samples of live snails Dome Paryphanta. Note in Nature re Priapulus.

letter, 21/05/1932, Mr Powell to W B Benham, Paryphanta from East Dome, Southland, Ruahine Range, opportunity to describe species. Sent up separate cover worms from harbour survey dredging. Mollusc Dosinia Greyi and triton Cabestana bolteniana.

letter, Hocken Library Books committee to University of Otago Council, Draft statement regarding the history and financial need of the Hocken Library with reference to the Hocken bequest to the University

letter to, Revised price list for animals supplied by Marine Fisheries Investigation Station at Portobello.

letter, 25/05/1934 to W B Benham, Estate of Thos Jackson. 44 birds, 4 pelts, 4 snake skins and lizard skins, box of butterflies, (skin of cassowary and eggs in poor condition and destroyed) from Papua. Arrangements to send to sister, miss Jackson of Invercargill

letter, 18/06/1934, Mrs Ritchie to, Asking for information on Mutton Bird Island and how the mutton birds got their name.

letter, 25/06/1934 to Mrs Ritchie, Explains the name 'mutton bird' is a sailors name for certain fat petrels and adopted by the early settlers, Maori called it 'oi-I'. There is no particular island called Mutton Bird Island, but several islands are known that the birds breed on in the Foveaux Strait, they also breed on Kapiti and on other islands off the North Island.

letter, 00/12/1935 to, Folded piece of paper with half a letter on one side and some form of timetable on the other. The letter side is signed by or for an L.G. Stephenson and appears to mention information on gills and glands, inclusive of the thyroid, there is also something mentioning cartilage, this side's information is incomplete due to being torn in half. The other side with a timetable follows a working week, Monday to Friday and seems to have rostered times of people, the names include N.C. Begg, Ruth Munro and Mia Harrison

letter, 24/12/1934, H.D. Skinner to A.H. Reed, Sending a package that should hopefully arrive in the afternoon inclusive of a memoir Reed would like Skinner to read before it's sent to the printers after the holiday period. Asks for any notes to just be sent as a reference page, and no need for the book to be returned. Thanks for reading before its publication.