Otago Museum Records/Archives

letter, 22/09/1936, Professor Benham to Chairman Museum Management Committee, Request for approval to purchase three Birds of Paradise.

letter, 30/09/1936, Mr Chapman, Registrar to Dr Benham, curator, Advice of approval to purchase Birds of Paradise for ten pounds.

letter, 02/10/1936, Professor Benham to Mrs Chisholm, Roslyn, Advice of decision to purchase Birds of Paradise skins.

letter, 04/10/1936, Mrs Chisholm, Roslyn to Dr Benham, curator, Accepting offer of Museum for Bird of Paradise skins.

letter, 24/07/1936, S. Saltzman, Dunedin (Tailor) to The Curator, Otago Museum, Brief letter offering donation of 'large show-case with glass sliding doors' from S. Salzman ladies' tailor business premises at 103 George Street. Suggested it can be used for housing exhibits.

letter, 18/07/1936, The Secretary, Napier Progressive Association Inc. to The Curator, Otago Museum, Letter requesting research materials for a 'local (Napier) artist' to use in constructing a model of the ship Abel Tasman sighted New Zealand in for the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition.

letter, 23/07/1936, The Curator, Otago Museum to The Secretary, Napier Progressive Association Inc., Letter in response to request in [55] stating the museum holds no model or suitable figure of Tasman's ship. Suggests two books the artist may be able to use held in the Parliamentary Library in Wellington.

letter, 27/07/1936, W.R.B Oliver (Director of Dominion Museum) to Professor Benham, Note from Oliver to Benham confirming the safe arrival of a shark skeleton at the Dominion Museum. States the skeleton will become the central exhibit in a case filled with Cyclostones and Elasmobranchs in the Zoology Hall.

letter, 20/07/1936, Jeffreys Scherek, Manager at Isidore Kozminsky Galleries (Melbourne) to The Curator, Otago Museum, Letter supplied with an enclosed greenstone tiki, requesting the museum to decide if they would like to purchase it for 10 pounds.

letter, 30/07/1936, The Curator, Otago Museum to Jeffreys Scherek, Manager at Isidore Kozminsky Galleries (Melbourne), Response to purchase offer made in [58], stating the tiki will not be purchased and has been returned to the sender as the expert consulted on it has identified it as European (produced on a lapidary wheel) and not of Maori origin.

letter, 11/12/1936, H.D. Skinner to A. Ambridge , We have received your collection via Leslie Trenn, Rarotonga. We would like to purchase the spears from the Cook Is and the stone-headed clubs from New Guinea.

letter, 16/07/1936, Gwendoline Mason to Unspecified, Letter accompanying 'rather unusual' 'little marked' shells from a black-sand beach and 'round snail shells' from a river shore which the author believes may be of interest to the museum. Perhaps says 'British Solomon' at the top-right but no clear location is provided.