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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.

Letter, 23/11/1918, 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.

Letter, 13/12/1925, Mr J Patoh to Professor W B Benham, Offer for purchase of skin of penguin.

Letter, 08/12/1915, R Speight to Professor W B Benham, Sending skin of penguin from McQuarries from Joseph Hatch.

Letter, 26/04/1915, Joseph Hatch to Professor W B Benham, Arrangements for coming to the museum and details re black penguin skin.

Letter, 06/04/1915, Joseph Hatch to Professor W B Benham, Further arrangements for coming to the museum and sale price of black penguin skin.

Letter, 30/08/1911, A H Cumblin to Professor W B Benham, Congratulations on the quality of the plaster casts supplied.

Letter, 18/01/1911, J ? Laudappa? Colombo, Ceylon to Professor W B Benham, Offer to collect ethnographic material from Ceylon.

Letter, 04/09/1911, A E Kemps to Professor W B Benham, Sending samples of worms.

Letter, Geo E Mason to Professor W B Benham, Offer of skin of an Ape.

Letter, 24/02/1911, C Mahoney to Professor W B Benham, Offer to collect earthworks from Cape Runaway.

Letter, 12/09/1911, W Brown, Manager Oamaru TT and OK Stoner Co. Ltd to Professor W B Benham, Request from Geological Museum Cambridge, England for a sample of marble. Easiest source is a deposit at the Museum from Caswell Sound. Will arrange for a stone mason to cut off a portion.

Letter, 06/09/1911, H Chapman to Professor W B Benham, Request application for leave approved.

Letter, 08/03/1911, W A Mason to Professor W B Benham, Mr Gibson of Auckland has been appointed to position of Taxidermist at the Museum. The council will pay his passage from Auckland to Dunedin.

Letter, 04/10/1911, H Chapman to Professor W B Benham, List of payments for salary and equipment, and actions approved by the Council.

Letter, 13/04/1911, H Farquhar, Dpt of Lands and Survey to Professor W B Benham, Request for specimens, and research into various species.