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Letter, 03/09/1937, W R B Oliver, Dominion Museum to H D Skinner, I have measured 250 bones taken from Otago middens and classified them into 13 species and include the number found. Note the larger bones are best preserved so may not represent the prevalence of moa type in each area. Chart of prevalence included

Letter, 09/04/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, Thank you for receipted accounts, We paid Hallenstein Bros. £5.1.9 for invoices from Fielding Sarson & Co and Charles E Cawthorn

Letter, 15/04/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, Enclosed copy of letter and declaration forms to be signed and returned

Letter, 22/04/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, You have not filled in your name, send us your christian names and we will complete

Letter, 03/05/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, Kodak projectors arrived and will be forwarded. Need carry cases and screens which we will arrange

Letter, 27/05/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, Completed first year of Carnegie Corporation grants. Please send list of payments you are due and any commitments up to 31 May for inclusion in accounts

Letter, 31/05/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, Projectors sent without transformers and one bulb so I cannot pay them.

Letter, 14/06/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, Suggest you pay and send monthly account for reimbursement. Please get a sign off from the Museum Committee for expenditure

Letter, 07/06/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, Forwarding voucher forms to be used with suppliers invoice for expenditure under the Carnegie grant especially for freight and cartage on exchange exhibits

Letter, 17/06/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, We have had no reply from you to our letter of May 27 The accountant is waiting

Letter, 25/06/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, We note you will not need the grant till October. Accounts will be signed off by Fels or Hercus. When you get another clerk we will send a monthly cheque

Letter, 25/06/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, We have insurance cover for all Museum exhibits in transit or on site but we do not have a valuation frow plymouth. As you are advising them could you supply the necessary information

Letter, 19/07/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, I note that £40 for puchase and setting up cases by Benham was paid by University Council and has not been reimbursed. Send certification and I will put it to the next committee meeting

Letter, 19/07/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, For administration we need to know in advance of any proposed expenditure from the grants. This does not include small items like cartage

Letter, 18/02/1937, R A Falla, Auckland Institute and Museum to H D Skinner, Confirming satisfactory arrangements for Miss Duff's Auckland visit. Advises salary paid to Dover has been £325 which will be raised to £350at the end of the present financial year.

Letter, 25/02/1937, V F Fisher, Auckland Instute and Museum to H D Skinner, Reports that Mitchell presented two obsidian discs from Waihi Beach. He retained all other material.

Letter, 08/03/1937, A W Powell, Acting Director, Auckland Institute and Museum to H D Skinner, Advising that a case of ethnographical specimens from the National Museum of Victoria has been forwarded on S.S. Waimarino.

Letter, 09/03/1937, Captain G Humphreys-Davies, Auckland Inst. & Museum to H D Skinner, Timing of the collection in each of Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Also comments, with examples, on the cost of insurance for the collection

Letter, 12/03/1937, A W Powell, Acting Director, Auckland Institute and Museum to H D Skinner, Request for the work of J T Parker on the laryngeal cartilages and muscles of the penguin to be loaned to Professor Edgeworth.

Letter, 17/03/1937, V F Fisher, Auckland Instute and Museum to H D Skinner, Reports on his visit to the Wellington Museum. The rivettus hook from Pukapuka is the property of Mr H Binsted, 9 Bridge Street Grafton.