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Letter, 16/08/1906, Henry H Travers to Professor W B Benham, Travers provides further information on the Moriori skeletons and skulls on offer. Benham's buyer can have the lot for £160.

Letter, 10/04/1906, J Mills to Professor W B Benham, Information about three garments sent by Mrs Mills. Origin Tahitian, speculation as to purpose.

Letter, 05/03/1906, J O'Sullivan, Defence Deprtment to Professor W B Benham, Offer of rifles from the South African War, belonged to I Mauser and I Martini.

Letter, 13/02/1906, W A Mason to Professor W B Benham, Request for funds has been postponed.

Letter, 05/06/1906, W A Mason to Professor W B Benham, Request for funds approved, 20Pound for cases for the Ethnology Department

Letter, 06/04/1906, Professor D Friedr Berwerth, Director Natural History Museum, Burgring to Professor W B Benham, Two letters, written in ?German

Letter, 20/09/1906, Professor D Friedr Berwerth, Director Natural History Museum, Burgring to Professor W B Benham, One letter, written in ?German

Letter, 14/01/1905, Henry Suter to Professor W B Benham, Sending worms found by Mr R H Matthews from Kaitaia. Would like any spare cephalopods and other species.

Letter, 02/09/1905, Henry Suter to Professor W B Benham, Discussion about names of species. Comments about papers on mollusc and looking for a German contact. List of various research papers.

Letter, 20/07/1905, Robert Stout, Chief Justice's Chambers, Wellington to Professor W B Benham, Suggestions of origins of whale bones gifted to the museum.

Letter, 16/10/1905, Government House to Professor W B Benham, Request from Cpt Hoshuekl? from the Imperial Museum in Austria, for a piece of the metabolite that fell at Makariwa.

Letter, 11/04/1905, N Natsonopus?, W Watson and Sons to Professor W B Benham, Payment draft of 12Pounds for Leitz microscope.

Letter, 17/07/1905, Henry Suter to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for papers and specimens. Sending material in exchange. Now need to make a living as a geology collector, need to find new species not well represented in Museums. Seeking further exchange material. Will try and send more earth worms, should be able to collect when the area is cleared for the first time.

Letter, 03/08/1905, Henry Suter to Professor W B Benham, Sending specimens in exchange for ones received. Information about Aplysia and Tethys.

Letter, 28/06/1905, Henry Suter to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for research papers an acknowledgement. Discussion on future exchange material.

Letter, 12/12/1905, Henry Suter to Professor W B Benham, Discussion of way of working of the Canterbury and Auckland Philos Institutes. Detailed list of 66 papers.

Letter, 21/02/1905, Harry Sargeant, London to Professor W B Benham, Offer of 2 boxes of fossils from Australia with details of how to collect them. Description of an unusual marine organism from Ruapuke like an anemone. Map of location included

Letter, 06/03/1905, W Robertson, Pleasant Valley to Professor W B Benham, Sent you stone stumps via SS "Invercargill" The roots do not show up

Letter, 17/01/1905, Anna Hay, Port Chalmers to Professor W B Benham, My father W Robertson unearthed 2 stumps of petrified wood at Curio Bay and will send them to you if you wish

Letter, 05/09/1905, J Patrck Shaw, St Leonards to Professor W B Benham, The ?wetas Mr Morison found are to hand and I will take to the museum when I can