Southern Māori Archives Project

Letter, 07/12/1915, J B Gilmour, Roxburgh to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for information regarding vine mildew.

Letter, 30/11/1915, J B Gilmour, Roxburgh to Professor W B Benham, Gilmour sends specimens of a mystery blight afflicting his vinery and requests help.

Letter, 28/09/1915, W A Haswell, University of Sydney to Professor W B Benham, Forwarding volume X V of The Reports of the "Valdivia".

Letter, 08/10/1915, H K Henderson to Professor W B Benham, Requests names of people willing to sell or exchange for clutches of commoner New Zealand birds' eggs, for Henderson's collection.

Letter, 01/05/1916, John Smith, Bluff to Professor W B Benham, Requests potential buyers for a stuffed white mutton bird.

Letter, 28/04/1916, D L Poppelwell, Gore to Professor W B Benham, Regarding the unusually white mutton bird found by John Smith. Poppelwell suspects Puffinus griseus. Poppelwell also observed numerous saddle-backs and green wrens on Stewart Island.

Letter, 06/02/1916, H P Young, Orepuki to Professor W B Benham, Young sends three NZ earthworms and eggs, found on the western slope of the Longwood Range.

Letter, 17/12/1915, A Eastwood to H D Skinner, Regarding the possibility of an exchange for Māori fish-hooks held at Eastwood's museum.

Letter, 03/05/1916, A Eastwood to H D Skinner?, Acknowledging the shipment of four Māori fish-hooks. Eastwood requests in turn New Hebridean implements.

Letter, 09/03/1915, F Kelway Pope to Professor Benham, Acknowledgement of deposit of black stone adze from Shag river. Letter 29/11/1915 requesting return of the item.

Letter, 18/02/1915, J Bemain to H D Skinner, The Cairo young Men's Christian Association with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Zeitoun Camp, Egypt. Letter accompanying an antiquity from a tomb. Found buried with human bones. Intent to locate more burial sites and open them while in the area.

Letter, 24/12/1915, H D Skinner to Professor Benham, Letter accompanying "seven or eight" hooks, representing types not found in NZ collections, seeking biological material as exchange. List of museums visited and comments on their Maori collections. Comments on stock held by dealers and prices. Thanks given to people who hosted, assisted and notes on gifts of objects.