Otago Museum Records/Archives

letter, 08/10/1933, Gladys Te Francois, Rime, Sandown Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town to Dr Benham, Advises sending a carved maori implement, thought to have belonged to Hone Heke, as a gift form her mother to the Hocken Museum. Also a small book containing a detailed list of New Zealand plants along with their Maori names

letter, 22/12/1932, E M Hocken, Rimu, Sandown Road, Rondebosch, Cape Town to Dr Benham, An old Maori stick which she would be happy to send to the museum. Mentions a carved Maori walking stick which Dr Colquhoun had presented to the museum. Mentions prof. Elder's work on the Marsden journals.

letter, 18/11/1935, Nils Holmgren, Stockholm to Professor W Benham, Thanks for sending two Callorhynchus specimens

letter, 24/08/1935, Nils Holmgren, Stockholm to Professor W Benham, Thanks for offer to look out for Callorhynchus material

letter, 25/07/1935, Chairman, Hocken Library Committee to Mr Morrell, The Chancellor, University of Otago, Advising that Mrs Macdonald will delay her resignation as librarian until 20th December.

letter, 11/06/1935, Mrs Macdonald, Hocken Librarian to W J Morell, Chancellor University of Otago, Advising of her resignation as of 30th September 1935

letter, 18/08/1935, S Sharma, Manager, The Upper India Scientific Works, Lahore to Head, Department of Zoology, University of New Zealand, Request for Zoological material. List appended.

letter, 20/09/1935, Curator to S Sharma, Manager, The Upper India Scientific Works, Lahore, Advising that there are no dealers in natural history specimens. Two animals on the list are strictly protected.

letter, 05/08/1935, George Graham, Te Akarana Maori Association, Auckland to H D Skinner, Re Maori Mummification.. I am sure there was no known process of the kind. The necessary process is repellent to Maori mentality. Such as have been found due to natural dehydration in favourable circumstances. Much local disgust at intensive exploration of their burial sites.

letter, 09/07/1935, Nils Holmgren, University of Stockholm, Drottninggaten 116, Stockholm to G M Thomson, Portobello Fish Hatcheries, Request for Callorhynchus material.

letter, 02/10/1935, Professor W Benham to Professor Nils Holmgren, Advises he is sending two Callorhyncus preserved in formalin

letter, 05/02/1935, Professor W Benham to Minister of Internal Affairs , Alerts Minister to the importation of two mongooses (from India) by Mr Donald Stuart Indent Agent of Bond Street, Dunedin. Requests that the animals be destroyed.