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Letter, 29/11/1916, Joseph Hunter, Gore High School to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for gift of labelled moa bones and consenting for Mr Strachan to accompany you

Letter, 29/11/1916, E C Smith, Gore High School Board to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for gift of Moa bones.

Letter, 20/08/1916, W T Gordon, New Plymouth to Professor W B Benham, I have for sale many photos of officers and men who served in the Maori wars, Hauhaus, friendly natives and old Redoubts etc. Also collection of coins such as wellington Museum purchased. Contact if interested

Letter, 14/10/1916, W T Gordon, New Plymouth to Professor W B Benham, Enclosed list of photos many of which took considerable research to attribute for £10. Also list of coins which you might get valued

Letter, 20/11/1916, W T Gordon, New Plymouth to Professor W B Benham, Please return lists and sample photo. I have some other items of interest

Letter, 03/06/1916, Scott Murray, Bluff to Professor W B Benham, Regarding the identification of an aquatic bird resembling a penguin. Includes several letters (3/06, 10/06, and 21/05), a sketch, and a foot tracing.

Letter, 14/10/1916, R McKenzie to Professor W B Benham, Forwarding matter taken from the "crops" of several kea.

Letter, 03/09/1916, W A Scarfe, Caversham to Professor W B Benham, Forwarding five specimens of the gastropod Marinula filholi, of the 50 discovered at Blackhead.

Letter, 28/07/1916, T Wayland Vaughan, Department of the Interior United States Geological Survey to Professor W B Benham, Vaughan sends the names of Benham's other specimens from Kermadec Islands: a bryozoan from the genus Callepora, and Polytrema mineaceum (Linaeus). The specimen of Goniastrea benhami is being forwarded to Benham via the National Museum.

Letter, 04/08/1916, R Rathbun, Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for the gift of 15 corals, 1 Foraminifera and 1 Bryozoan, from the Kermadec Islands. Rathbun returns specimen no. 3.

Letter, 07/12/1915, J B Gilmour, Roxburgh to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for information regarding vine mildew.

Letter, 30/11/1915, J B Gilmour, Roxburgh to Professor W B Benham, Gilmour sends specimens of a mystery blight afflicting his vinery and requests help.

Letter, 28/09/1915, W A Haswell, University of Sydney to Professor W B Benham, Forwarding volume X V of The Reports of the "Valdivia".

Letter, 08/10/1915, H K Henderson to Professor W B Benham, Requests names of people willing to sell or exchange for clutches of commoner New Zealand birds' eggs, for Henderson's collection.

Letter, 01/05/1916, John Smith, Bluff to Professor W B Benham, Requests potential buyers for a stuffed white mutton bird.

Letter, 28/04/1916, D L Poppelwell, Gore to Professor W B Benham, Regarding the unusually white mutton bird found by John Smith. Poppelwell suspects Puffinus griseus. Poppelwell also observed numerous saddle-backs and green wrens on Stewart Island.

Letter, 06/02/1916, H P Young, Orepuki to Professor W B Benham, Young sends three NZ earthworms and eggs, found on the western slope of the Longwood Range.

Letter, 09/03/1915, F Kelway Pope to Professor Benham, Acknowledgement of deposit of black stone adze from Shag river. Letter 29/11/1915 requesting return of the item.

Letter, 24/12/1915, H D Skinner to Professor Benham, Letter accompanying "seven or eight" hooks, representing types not found in NZ collections, seeking biological material as exchange. List of museums visited and comments on their Maori collections. Comments on stock held by dealers and prices. Thanks given to people who hosted, assisted and notes on gifts of objects.

Letter, 09/02/1915, J Wayland Vaughan? Dpt of the Interior United States Geology Survey. to Professor Benham, Finishing work on the coral specimens sent a while ago. Taking images, request publication size.