Southern Māori Archives Project

Letter, 06/09/1912, W R Oliver to Professor W B Benham, Passing on (via Roy Bell of Norfolk Island) the offer of H C Quintall to sell a variety of bird skins, eggs, shells, and plant specimens. Oliver also discusses his own research on molluscs.

Letter, 03/10/1912, J Allan Thomson to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for the loan of books. Discusses the identity of the plant speciment from the Campbell Islands in the Otago Museum collection (proposes it belongs to the type of Waldheimia ovalis rather than W. campbellia).

Letter, 19/11/1911, Josef Zapf (?) to, Regarding the possibility of the recipient sending live lizards of the family Geconidae.

Letter, 06/09/1911, J W Bond, Geological Society of London to Professor W B Benham, Confirming that future volumes of the Zoological Record for the Otago Museum will be shipped to Mr Francis Edwards directly.

Letter, 16/03/1911, Brown (?) to Professor W B Benham, Regarding bill due in relation to John Ewing of Maori Hill.

Letter, 20/03/1911, John Ewing, Maori Hill to Professor W B Benham, Regarding the bill sent to Benham. Refers also to the installation of certain show cases.

Letter, 11/07/1911, J H Farquharson, Port Chalmers to Professor W B Benham, Regarding delays in shipping a lizard due to its escape from its enclosure.

Letter, 16/08/1911, W A Haswell, University of Sydney to Professor W B Benham, Regarding the composition of gutta-percha and asphaltum cement.

Letter, 17/05/1911, A Hamilton (?), Dominion Museum to Professor W B Benham, List of casts: Leith Street axe; Wickliff Bay axe; Catlins cut greenstone; large adze Otago Heads; West Coast Tuku Here 1866; Greenstone adze Otakou; Maori kaik Henley 1885; Greenstone adze with transverse groove, Captain Fraser; Waimea Plains.

Letter, 17/12/1918, Walter Henderson, Southern Isles Exploitation Co Ltd to Professor W B Benham, Acknowledging receipt of £2.2 in payment to Mrs Bauer for dark penguin left in Otago Museum by the late Mr Bauer.

Letter, 07/12/1918, Walter Henderson, Southern Isles Exploitation Co Ltd to Professor W B Benham, Regarding payment arrangements to Mrs Bauer for the dark penguin left in the Museum by her late husband.

Letter, 28/11/1918, Walter Henderson, Southern Isles Exploitation Co Ltd to Professor W B Benham, Arranging payment to Mrs Bauer for the dark penguin of the late Otto Bauer.