Otago Museum Records/Archives

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.

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, 08/09/1904, Registrar, University of Otago to Professor W B Benham, Approval of fee for Honours Biology Laboratory.

Letter, 09/12/1903, Chilton?, Canterbury College to Professor W B Benham, Reports find at Castle Hill of worms, including flat colourless one, (is it "Prorhynchus putealis"?)

Letter, 07/08/1903, T F Chuseman? Museum, Auckland to Professor W B Benham, Acknowledges receipt of fossil ("Polucipes") lent to the Museum.

Letter, 18/12/1901, T F Chuseman? Museum, Auckland to Professor W B Benham, No objection to the speciman of the big Scalpellum being taken to the Hobart meeting of the Australasian Association.

Letter, 04/12/1903, N L Buchanan, Collingwood to Professor W B Benham, Sending the skin (plus skull) of Kiore. The second male seen in 10 years.

Letter, 24/05/1903, A D S ? Shag Valley, Waihemo to Professor W B Benham, Sending the "ingenious German Engine" (described in letter of 20 May) as a personal gift.

Letter, 20/05/1903, A D S ? Shag Valley, Waihemo to Professor W B Benham, Offer of "rare piece of apparatus" - a set of insturments for observing embryonic growth in an egg.

Letter, 03/09/1903, L Cockayne, Christchurch to Professor W B Benham, Appreciation for praise on work on worms and report of one only, found on Antipodes Island.