Southern Māori Archives Project

Letter, 09/02/1915, J Wayland Vaughan? Dpt of the Interior United States Geology Survey. to Professor Benham, Finishing work on the coral specimens sent a while ago. Taking images, request publication size.

Letter, 20/04/1915, J Wayland Vaughan? Dpt of the Interior United States Geology Survey. to Professor Benham, Finishing review of two papers by other scientist and then to complete own report.

Letter, 30/06/1915, Herbert J Buckland to Professor Benham, Not been able to collect some of the insects of interest. Have collected insects, eggs and worm; list and details of location attached.

Letter, 12/02/1914, Herbert J Buckland to Professor Benham, Pleased you were interested in the insects that I sent. Currently clearing bush so can collect further material. List of further collection with details. Letter 3/4/1915 acknowledging collecting case. Details re various stick insects.

Letter, 28/01/1914, Herbert J Buckland to Professor Benham, Details re insects sent including location.

Letter, 25/03/1914, Robert Lumine? Nelson to Professor Benham, Discussing collecting and drying specimens of moss.

Letter, 13/04/1914, Robert Lumine? Nelson to Professor Benham, Discussing collecting insects, especially spiders.

Letter, 08/04/1915, Robert Lumine? Nelson to Professor Benham, Continuing collecting ?moss / plants. Discussion about size of item and purpose ie research or exhibition.

Letter, 20/04/1914, Robert Lumine? Nelson to Professor Benham, Sending what has been collected, unable to find more spiders, possibly because the season has finished. Discussion on Red and Black ? Fly, and its interaction with spiders.

Letter, 16/08/1914, W? Lewptharue? , redmount, Lumsden to Professor Benham, Noted newspaper article about an albino duck. Advised tame white ducks and wild grey ducks have been successfully breeding at a pond in Heriot.

Letter, 24/03/1913, A G Batement, Bealey Flat, Canterbury to Professor Benham, Send material from digging in a bog. Please advise species and life cycle history. Found no worms in the bog.

Letter, 14/07/1914, Charles Badham, Sydney University to Professor Benham, In Sub Antarctic Islands. Working on Genus Abranchus and ?Platybsella but await Johansson's paper of 1946 on the Swedish ?Ichthyobseltids Their transparent nature means their systems can be seen. Marine leech parasite on Saint Whiting