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Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
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letter, 23/09/1926, G L Southwaite? Guildhall library, London to H D Skinner, Note that all objects lent to the 1925-6 South Seas exhibition now delivered to Hallensteins for onward shipping
letter, 26/06/1926, Assistant curator (H D Skinner) to H D Skinner, Request for donation of stone adzes
letter, 03/06/1925, W J Herring to H D Skinner, Promise to contact if at some point in the future he decides to dispose of his collection
letter, 03/06/1926, Unsigned to H D Skinner, Acceptance of offer of Colenso's papers and request for photographs of wood carvings
letter, 06/12/1926, Willi Fells to H D Skinner, Note accompanying duplicates and copies of letters re duplicates of the items from Guildhall museum
letter, 02/09/1926, Unsigned to H D Skinner, Notice of receipt of Guildhall collection and thanks
letter, ?/11/1927, Hearley? to H D Skinner, Thanks for letter of 7/6/27, promise to send 12 celts? When he gets them back from Peking
letter, 16/02/1926, Unsigned to H D Skinner, Thanks for copy of book 'by far the bet book of its kind ever published'. Note Mrs MacDonald has taken over the librarianship and he has received a Rock-Foller Foundation travelling fellowship.
letter, 21/03/1926, Hiner G Hastie to H D Skinner, A Mr Sharp in Owaka has a very fine Maori Adze. A letter from you might prompt a gift or deposit. He told me of a cutting with heaps of moa bones. A full skeleton from there was said to have been sold to Edinburgh university for L500
letter, 08/05/1926, H D Skinner to H D Skinner, I will write to him. We would like to know the location of the moa bones. No Moa skeleton has ever been sold for L500 maybe L50. Would you come back and work for us?
letter, 29/06/1926, Assistant Curator to H D Skinner, We wish to buy the Tiki for L15
letter, 21/06/1926, M M Heinemann to H D Skinner, I could not sell the tiki for L10, If genuine would be worth a lot more than L15
letter, 17/06/1926, H D Skinner to H D Skinner, Thanks for Author's copies. I had accepted the Bishop Museum invite to do field work in Upolo but instead am going to USA for 17 months
letter, 27/04/1928, H L Ferguson Dean to H D Skinner, History of the Cook artifacts possibly stolen from the collection while in Trinity. After Cook died cabin taken over by Gore. He died and cabin taken over by Lt King He thought the artifacts belonged to Gore and sent them to his relatives in Northern Ireland where they were found by Macalister prof of Zoology at Trinity where they were hung in the examination hall
letter, 30/08/1928, Gilbert Archey (Auckland Institute and Museum) to H D Skinner, We should be able to offer hospitality to Emory, Advise Pycroft of whom he should send letters for papers for conference.
letter, 20/10/1928, Annie C Anderson Te Hainga MacAndrew bay to H D Skinner, I have received an Indian Basket from British Columbia woven by an Indian Girl made from Cedar roots grass and deerskin if you want it.
letter, 01/11/1928, Johanes B Andersen NZ Institute to H D Skinner, Re Allan's paper on Geology of the Chathams. 10 figures referred to but no description. Can you describe them?
letter, 13/11/1928, Johanes B Andersen NZ Institute to H D Skinner, To hand batch of Kennedy's Ellice Island notes, good stuff. We prefer to use ng instead g Sending Proofs of Allan's paper for revision. If figs. For blocks not to hand will not wait
letter, 28/11/1928, Gilbert Archey (Auckland Institute and Museum) to H D Skinner, Asked to be abstractor for ethnology for transaction of N Z Institute. Not sure if this is right. More desirable to have only original papers. Glad to have your views.
letter, 03/12/1928, Assistant Curator to H D Skinner, Ethnographic committee wish to purchase statue for $500 conditional on no Government or other regulations forbidding it. Please don't mention this unless you have to we want to keep a low profile. Nordhoff mentioned you have some smaller things from Easter Island