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Letter, 03/09/1904, Colonial Museum, Wellington to Professor W B Benham, Copies of the Tran. are late. Can you support application for leave? Do you know what that glassy thing is from the deepest dredging?

Letter, 24/01/1904, Charles Hedley, Auckland to Professor W B Benham, Sending dredgings to you. Mr Cooper has a new dredge bucket and will send to you. Suter, Murdock, Webster, Cooper, Prof Park and I dredged 60 miles from Auckland. Weather rough all except me seasick. On return sorted 5cwt of mud and found lots of new stuff. Suter to have charge of the work.

Letter, 09/02/1904, Charles Hedley, Australian Museum, Sydney to Professor W B Benham, Got home safely. Smallpox outbreak gave us a lot of trouble, Now vaccinated. My agent went insane. Your box of 100 fathom sand revealed over 30 species of shells some new. Mentioned Phylobrya cortata Bernard. Picked over Hamilton's collection including new species. Please send the Nudibranchi which Dr Bergh named also the shipworm Nausitoria Antarctica and the little Oncidium

Letter, 27/05/1904, Charles Hedley, Australian Museum, Sydney to Professor W B Benham, Mounted your gift of Nudibranchiata. (Comments on species). Interested in Cryptodrilus in the North Island. Possible warm Antarctic ones. Antarctic freezing could have caused migration

Letter, 11/07/1904, W Heale, Christchurch to Professor W B Benham, Offer Norwegian skis, Sleigh Harness, Helmet, Knitted Bernice, ankle protectors for £3-10.

Letter, 18/07/1904, W Heale, Christchurch to Professor W B Benham, Accepted offer of £3 and sending

Letter, 05/07/1904, W Heale, Christchurch to Professor W B Benham, Have 2 geological specimens red granite and basalt from Mount Erebus from Captain Hutton of the Discovery for £2.

Letter, 22/06/1904, W Heale, Christchurch to Professor W B Benham, For £2 sending skull of Weddels seal. I have 17 old mostly Indian weapons. Would exchange for Maori material

Letter, 13/06/1904, W Heale, Christchurch to Professor W B Benham, List of Antarctic expedition objects for sale

Letter, 31/11/1904, R Murdoch, Wanganui to Professor W B Benham, Could you loan me the types of Columbella Flexuora Hutton. (Discussion on taxonomy) Working on Mrs Hamilton's collection

Letter, 12/07/1904, W. Laing, Norfolk Island to Professor W B Benham, Regarding previous specimen of earth worm sent to Beetham. Refers to entry in N. Z. 'Transactions.' ( Royal Society Journal). Notes that earlier specimen arrived as fragments only and offers to send several more specimens that will be intact. Not sure of species. Mentions Land Plaunicus(?).

Letter, 19/09/1904, F. W. Hutton, Christchurch Museum to Professor W B Benham, Regarding labelling/source of recent molluscea in publication/s about fossils.

Letter, 29/03/1904, C. Hedley, College Street, Sydney to Professor W B Benham, Found a tube of worms in a pocket of an old coat. These should have been forwarded to Suter. Is sending tube containing worms to Benham.

Letter, 12/05/1904, C. Hedley, Australian Museum, Sydney to Professor W B Benham, Acknowledges letter of 4 May. Discusses Palm Island dredgings, sand from Gulf of Carpentaria, and description of nudibranchs.

Letter, 10/06/1904, William H. Webster, Waiuku to Professor W B Benham, Thank you for shells sent. Discusses descriptions of shells by Hutton and paper by Professor Parker in Royal Society Journal 'Transactions, vol. 299. Webster lists shells that he would like to add to his collection if Benham has these and welcomes future exchanges.

Letter, 31/03/1904, Registrar, University of Otago to Professor W B Benham, Reports Biological laboratory assistant's salary has been raised by 10 shillings per week and additional grant will also be paid this month.

Letter, 13/11/1904, Alfred Philpott, Underwood, Invercargill to Professor W B Benham, Sending a box of about forty moths for N.Z. insect collection. Has selected moths with intention to fill gaps in the collection. Will be able to check the moth collection when visiting Dunedin next winter.

Letter, 06/07/1904, J. C. Buckland, Akaroa to Professor W B Benham, Sending a spider with family. Found about one foot deep in the soil.

Letter, 03/07/1904, J. C. Buckland, Akaroa to Professor W B Benham, Regarding a "small insect or creature" with a nest on his house spouting. Would like to know what this is. Sending 'creature,' in a small tin box.

Letter, 15/02/1904, W. G. Ridewood, British Museum of Natural History. to Professor W B Benham, Writing on behalf of Professor Lankester regarding skeleton of Callorhynchus. Notes that dark brown colour of skeleton is caused by iron wire rusting. Suggests use of silver wire in future. Reports that skeleton has now been mounted in a special glass case.