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Letter, 27/07/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Thanks for bone box from North Auckland and the waka

Letter, 27/07/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Pleased with Centre Island piece which is associated with Sir Frederick Chapman. Humphreys-Davies suggested the Victoria and Albert Chinese exhibits might stay in New Zealand for another 18 months. We will send to you in January. We have some pieces from Humphreys-Davies collection which may stay with you. Tose to be with you for 8 weeks. Taranaki exhibit to you in a week.

Letter, 01/11/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Photo of Hamilton completes our set of men who have been in charge. Hector, Hutton, Ulrich, Parker, Hamilton and Benham

Letter, 04/02/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Miss Daff has found errors in the numbers on the exchange pieces

Letter, 05/02/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Case containing he Canterbury collection forwarded today, Attached list of 23 exchange pieces sent to Dominion Museum.

Letter, 11/02/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Letter and 2 Cachelot Ivory pendants from Mrs Spring. Worth £25 the pair. Try for £20 We would take two but you might like one.

Letter, 14/02/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Shipped the Nelson Tobacco exhibit. Photos of Marquesian and Tahitian material from W B Jones Parfumerie Tiki. Papeete. We offered £7-15-0 for adzes in a third photo. Pounders worth £2 each. Maori Tiki is a fake. I suggest you offer £20 for the lot excluding the Maori piece.

Letter, 16/03/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Sending 4 crates of Moa bones from Papatowai and Waitaki Mouth from Teviotdale excavations.

Letter, 20/04/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Malaita clubs make beautiful series. If I have seen them it is most likely Olldman. Miss Daff is making drawings of the amulet series from the Dominion museum. Need a close look at the steatite carving from Nelson, could you send it to us. Could you snd photo of the pair of amulets found at Aniseeed

Letter, 02/04/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Sending 2 more boxes of bones from Papatowai. Mrs Marples, wife of the new Professor of Zoology, will probably take over our Moa collection

Letter, 27/04/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Received Canterbury museum exhibit of Maori fishing material, 31 pieces.

Letter, 10/05/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Interested in the 2 new Papatowai species. Mrs Marples not yet started. Your suggestion of £10 for the W B Jones pieces would be fantastic value. Glad to receive the 2 echange pieces. Miss Daff has drawn the steotite piece from Nelson.

Letter, 05/05/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Copy of application to export Maori material by way of exchange. I shall apply for similar exports to Horniman Museum, London, The Liverpool Museum, the Royal Scottish Museum, the Ethnographic museum Gothenburg and the Royal Museum Brussels.

Letter, 24/05/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Thanks for photograph, and information regarding Megalapterix didinus from Papatowai.

Letter, 08/06/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Advice re two cases containing material sent in circulation by Taranaki Museum.

Letter, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Suggests Tose makes habitat group at Dominion Museum

Letter, 16/06/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Informs of arrival of Taranaki Exhibit.

Letter, 21/06/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Happy to have identification of complete Moa bones.

Letter, 04/08/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Notifying dispatch of the Taranaki Loan Collection. The large adze which belongs to Otago Museum has been replaced by a cast.

Letter, 17/08/1937, H D Skinner to Director Dominion Museum, Oliver, Notifying arrival of Auckland Museum's Loan Exhibit.