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Letter, 07/12/1937, Mr Frank Tose to H D Skinner, Class starts Monday next. Miss Daff and your niece can come Tuesday

Letter, 10/12/1937, Mr Frank Tose to H D Skinner, Writing son Cecil about position of keeper of zoology. I should have photos of his work before I leave for San Francisco and will send to you

Letter, 28/01/1938, Mr Frank Tose to H D Skinner, Classes ended yesterday. A day at Napier museum then to Rotorua and Auckland. Miss Daff and your niece have lots of talent. Model of sea lions and penguins made by them. Cecil wants to talk over application with me. I could secure for you a taxidermist

Letter, 04/02/1938, Cecil Tose to H D Skinner, Interested

Letter, 15/04/1938, Mr Frank Tose to H D Skinner, Can wait writing

Letter, 13/04/1938, H C Richards, Art Galleries and Museums Association of Australia and New Zealand to H D Skinner, Enclosed report on your institution made by Frank Tose. Collection of birds and mammals is extensive but of poor quality and badly faded. Maori material overcrowded but well displayed. The work of rearranging the museum along modern educational lines will be long and much will have to be discarded. Talk given to museum staff trustees and class from Teachers' College. Talk given over 4ZB

Letter, 23/04/1938, Mr Frank Tose to H D Skinner, Cecil prepared to wait 2 months or longer. Considering San Francisco Exposition.

Letter, 06/04/1938, A Low, The Museum, New Plymouth to H D Skinner, Advising of despatch of exhibits loaned by the Otago Museum as part of the Carnegie Museum Exchange System.

Letter, 07/03/1938, W H S to H D Skiner, Further discussion of the mechanism for completing the exchange of items.

Letter, 28/07/1938, A R Low, Taranaki museum to H D Skinner, Advises receipt of the Otago Museum Exhibit in the Carnegie Museum Exchange system.

Letter, 14/02/1938, Drector, he Tasmanian Museum to H D Skinner, Discusses the exchange from Otago a bust of Truganini. Dr Pearson will consider this on his return from England on 4th December.

Letter, 08/01/1938, Alan Telfer, Ratanui to H D Skinner, Sends fish caught at Hina Cove, for identification.

Letter, 12/09/1938, Claude Theyers, Waipiata to H D Skinner, Sends head of unusual rabbit with two long bottom teeth.

Letter, 27/07/1938, Mr Johnston, Town Clerk to H D Skinner, Invites Skinner to speak at a primary school for Arbor Day.

Letter, 09/05/1938, Dale Trendall to H D Skinner, Updates on status of auction market. Requests picture of oenochoe in Skinner's possession for publishing on phlyax. Skinner's Proto-Attic egg-shaped krater was included in J M Cook's article, dated 710-680 BC.

Letter, 20/09/1938, Dale Trendall to H D Skinner, Updates on publishing on phlyax, and the auction market in London. Trendall will ask Stewart to send report on progress in Cyprus. There is a small box of Mycenaean and Cretan sherds from the British School at Athens for Otago Museum. Mentions impending war in Europe.

Letter, 04/02/1938, L H Trenn, Cook Islands Administration, Manihiki to H D Skinner, Sends a ruvettus hook, a bonito hook, and a broken pearlshell hand grater (tuai/tuei?). Will look for pounder, legless bowl, and 4 legged coconut grater. Recounts a local land decision he made at an inquiry.

Letter, 24/03/1938, Sylvia Turner to H D Skinner, Requests identification of fish.

Letter, 03/12/1938, Mr Teviotdale to H D Skinner, Four letters by Teviotdale from Papatowai and three photographs. Letter one: Mr Honsey has left due to hard work and poor returns. Best pieces found are human bone, greenstone adze, sinker and fish hook. Evidence of Moa eaten on site. Had visit from member of the Scenic Board who was helpful. Looking to find cave near Kantigi (sp?). Letter two: little found, evidence of oven and shell refuse at Para Para. Only other bones were small amount of dog and a fragment of human skull. At Tukurua got an adze. Will visit Truman's, Miss Ruby showed me tiki and two adze. Her brother found things in Westhaven. Young Rile would not allow digging. Letter three; Went to Tukurua, some had dug before me. Found mostly European material. Identified large midden. Mr Wilkins has a remarkable fine adze of grey argillite. Will collect katipo spiders for Mrs Marples. Letter four; tide exposed promising are where I found 10 adze and chisels. Describes layers of material where artifacts found. Moa bone and egg shell also found.

Letter, 25/03/1938, Registrary Clerk University of Cambridge to H D Skinner, Can send copy of your degree certificates for Research and Anthropology.