Otago Museum Records/Archives

Letter, 28/05/1913, Internal Affairs to Professor Benham, Authority to take possession of the Red Kaka in possession of Mr Bills

Letter, 08/08/1913, Russell & Sons, Invergargill to Professor Benham, We are prosecuting John Kirkland of Stewart Island who shot and killed a Red Kaka. As you have the bird which has to be presented in court please hand it to a ranger. Please supply scientific name. (Note in pencil, as I hold the Warrant to have the bird need to get note from Internal affairs for it's transfer.

Letter, 08/09/1913, Russell & Sons, Invergargill to Professor Benham, Ranger Keyder v John Kirkland. Pleaded guilty fined £2-2-0 7/- court cost £1-1-0 solicitor The bird has been handed to Mr Gibbs of the Southland Museum

Letter, 15/08/1913, Russell & Sons, Invergargill to Professor Benham, re Red Kaka we note your comments. We will send ranger Leyden to get the bird

Letter, 02/08/2013, W A Stout Southland Acclimatisation Society to Professor Benham, Henry Thomas Leyden has authority to collect the Re Kaka

Letter, 07/09/1913, Alfred Philpot, Invercargill to Professor Benham, I return the museum periodicals. I understand the Red Kaka is in the hands of the Southland acclimatisation society and is to be handed to the Technical School Museum. I thought it should have stayed with you

Letter, 16/04/1913, H Chapman Registrar to Professor Benham, Approved £10 for an insect cabinet

Letter, 30/05/1913, A Siveridge, Kingston Hill to Professor Benham, Case of seaweeds came yesterday but there are no labels. Could you send various localities Sending £5 to W J Phillips

Letter, 13/07/2012, Hubert Lyman ClarkMuseum of Comparative Zoology Cambridre Mass. to Professor Benham, I learned the £2 for the Kermadecs Echinoderms was not sent. I need a bill from you to get it done. Trust you enjoyed England visit

Letter, 06/09/1912, W R Oliver to Professor W B Benham, Passing on (via Roy Bell of Norfolk Island) the offer of H C Quintall to sell a variety of bird skins, eggs, shells, and plant specimens. Oliver also discusses his own research on molluscs.

Letter, 03/10/1912, J Allan Thomson to Professor W B Benham, Thanks for the loan of books. Discusses the identity of the plant speciment from the Campbell Islands in the Otago Museum collection (proposes it belongs to the type of Waldheimia ovalis rather than W. campbellia).

Letter, 19/11/1911, Josef Zapf (?) to, Regarding the possibility of the recipient sending live lizards of the family Geconidae.