Southern Māori Archives Project

Letter, 25/06/1907, Harry G de Lautour to Professor W B Benham, Notes on sale of diatom samples 2/6 to 5/- per oz of doubtful quality. I know of several deposits all different. Some are non calcarious with few and small radiolaria and sponges. I could arrange a day trip to visit sites and collect specimens

Letter, 24/10/1907, Cyril W Gudgion,Glenorchy to Professor W B Benham, Sending you an insect that looks like a spider.

Letter, 31/10/1907, Geoffrey Elliot, Sheffield to Professor W B Benham, Accept Nudibranches. Could send me some from your coast especially Atagema Carinata

Letter, 04/03/1907, F Guitel, Rennes to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for letter about the fish Gobiesocides. From the seas of New Zealand

Letter, 13/12/1907, Jas, Laird, Deborah to Professor W B Benham, Sending you an insect for identification. It has a long sting and made a whirring buzzing noise

Letter, 16/01/1909, Ernest Panting, Te Awamutu to Professor W B Benham, Enclosed drawing of a skull with an extra large bone. Is it significant?

Letter, 03/04/1907, I F Rayner, Nuggets to Professor W B Benham, Sending small bird possibly grey backed sormy petrel

Letter, 02/10/1907, A S Polson, Napier to Professor W B Benham, Do you have a small mounted mammal skeleton for sale and how much?

Letter, 04/07/1907, W C ?Mackinlay Naseby to Professor W B Benham, Sending fossil of a large claw found 18 foot down near Mount Ida below the auriferous drift. Finder Moses Brown.

Letter, 07/08/1907, Annie Martyn, Koromiko to Professor W B Benham, Got some bush worms for you. There are some up to a foot long. Headmaster D Robertson knew you from the Union Street school

Letter, 11/03/1907, Henry Suter, Auckland to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for Chitons, Returning Eudoxochiton Huttoni. Mentioned Hirudo, Dolichoglossus, worms in wharf piles, land-shells on Auckland Islands, Flammulina Aucklandia, Polyplarophora,

Letter, 29/08/1907, S F Harmer, University of Cambridge to Professor W B Benham, Mentioned Cogia, Polyzoa, Steganoporella vincalarian, cinctipora elegans, Heteropora neozelanica, preferably preseved in corrisive sublimate. Notes on reprint of Vol II of the C.N.H.