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Letter, 01/12/1910, Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage board to Professor W B Benham, Gift of greenstone adze found by a workman excavating in Leith Street

Letter, 31/12/1910, Dunedin Drainage and Sewerage board to Professor W B Benham, Enclosed sketch of the ground where the adze was found showing strata. There are records of levels before any filling in. it was 5'9" down

Letter, 15/04/1910, Victoria League, Dunedin to Professor W B Benham, Miss Talbot the London Secretary said Professor Harry Littlejohn of Edinburgh university would put any students from New Zealand going to Edinburgh in touch with the league

Letter, 17/02/1910, Edgar R Waite, Canterbury Museum to Professor W B Benham, List of "Nora Niven" specimens sent. We do not have a cast od a nugget

Letter, 31/10/1910, W A Mason, Registrar to Professor W B Benham, Agreed to appoint Mr MacKenzie as janitor without duties at 10/- per week. Resolved to advertise for a janitor for £90 PA

Letter, 05/02/1909, N L Buchanan, Collingwood to Professor W B Benham, Sending you a collection of mason wasps

Letter, 20/02/1909, N L Buchanan, Collingwood to Professor W B Benham, Sending lengths of split bamboo with Mason bee nests and spiders

Letter, 26/05/1909, State Agricultural Experiment Station, Washington to Professor W B Benham, Sending you copy of paper in Entomological news. I would be glad to make exchanges of Dipteral

Letter, 11/01/1909, Tom Iredale, Aust Assn of Science to Professor W B Benham, Kermadecs Island material sent via Mr Brook Oliver. Sunday Island molluscs include many tubular animals with operculi

Letter, 11/12/1908, M C Oliver, Wanganui to Professor W B Benham, Sending 2 jars and 10 tube worms and echinoderms. Asking Mr Iredale to send thick tubes

Letter, 02/12/1908, M C Oliver, Wanganui to Professor W B Benham, I have all the specimens except the insects spiders and molluscs collected on the Kermadecs. Will send the worms and echinoderms shortly. I hope New Zealand scientist will be able to do the describing

Letter, 16/02/1909, M C Oliver, Wanganui to Professor W B Benham, Sending collection of plants from the Kermadecs

Letter, 22/04/1909, ? I R Skegg, Kensington to Professor W B Benham, Sending list of spider numbers, names and locality

Letter, 06/11/1909, Edgar R Waite, Canterbury Museum to Professor W B Benham, Sending Porocidaris elegans. There are only 2 known specimens of Echinus angulesus,

Letter, 26/10/1909, Edgar R Waite, Canterbury Museum to Professor W B Benham, Fishes of Nimrod Expedition, inviting addition to the report and sending worms discovered in fish from Cape Royds area.

Letter, 20/10/1909, W A Mason to Professor W B Benham, Letter informing of correspondence received from Mr Monkman, Imperial Trade Correspondance to the University council, with a copy of his letter attached. Monkman's letter requesting scientific apparatus and chemicals be purchased primarily from British traders before enquiring into other foreign traders.

Letter, 25/03/1909, Henry Suter to Professor W B Benham, Informing of sending a large earthworm specimen in poor condition with an egg capsule of the worm, collected by R H Matthews in Kaitaia. Follow up with return of oysters and findings from them, with specimens forwarded list. Sending parcel of centipede from the Big King and Echinoderms for naming.

Letter, 18/08/1909, Thomas Fergus, Vice Consul in NZ for the Argentine Republic to Professor W B Benham, Acknowledgment receipt of letter re. exchange of specimens of characteristic native birds and reptiles for Argentine Ethmological articles..

Letter, N/A, Gregory Prescott to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for sending sharks jaws. Menitions shark tooth weapons from Tonga

Letter, 22/03/1909, Henry Bantry, Second Officer and Chief Clerk Institution of Science & Art, National Museum of Ireland to Professor W B Benham, Reply to letter regarding information on the deposit of the collection of weapons, previously under ownership of Captain Cook, exhibited in the Ethnological Gallery in the museum.