Otago Museum Records/Archives

Letter, 21/02/1905, Harry Sargeant, London to Professor W B Benham, Offer of 2 boxes of fossils from Australia with details of how to collect them. Description of an unusual marine organism from Ruapuke like an anemone. Map of location included

Letter, 06/03/1905, W Robertson, Pleasant Valley to Professor W B Benham, Sent you stone stumps via SS "Invercargill" The roots do not show up

Letter, 17/01/1905, Anna Hay, Port Chalmers to Professor W B Benham, My father W Robertson unearthed 2 stumps of petrified wood at Curio Bay and will send them to you if you wish

Letter, 05/09/1905, J Patrck Shaw, St Leonards to Professor W B Benham, The ?wetas Mr Morison found are to hand and I will take to the museum when I can

Letter, 05/09/1905, J J Fletcher, Linean Society New South Wales to Professor W B Benham, Receipt of vol 27,29 o36 and vol 28 of transactions of the New Zealand institute. Sending our proceedings 1897 to 1905 29 vols. In the future I might ask for New Zealand Oesiderata

Letter, 03/05/1905, J J Fletcher, Linean Society New South Wales to Professor W B Benham, We lost our total library in a fire and attempts to replace volumes of the proceedings of the New Zealand institute have been unsuccessful Could you help by way of exchange?

Letter, 07/07/1905, J J Fletcher, Linean Society New South Wales to Professor W B Benham, Your box has arrived and I will arrange an exchange

Letter, 18/08/1905, N L Buchanan, Collingwood to Professor W B Benham, You noted you would like specimens of earthworms where North and South Island meet. Tell me where to look and I will try to find some

Letter, 15/09/1905, N L Buchanan, Collingwood to Professor W B Benham, Thank you for instructions and tubes of preservative. I will get on to it when I can

Letter, 05/11/1905, Robert Brown, Stratford to Professor W B Benham, Ever since I saw your handbook I been hunting Peripatus. Here I have found 13 specimens. Also found a geonemertes with 2 stripes instead of four

Letter, 06/12/1905, Robert Brown, Stratford to Professor W B Benham, found 6 2 striped geonemertes up t 16 mile apart. Also a large brown one with no stripes. I shall write a paper and bring to Dunedin

Letter, 19/01/1905, S F Harmer, University of Cambridge to Professor W B Benham, 2 papers arrived, If you go dredging look for Cephalodiscus, Obtained Rhabdopleura from South Australia. Looking for the Polyzoon Cinetipora Elegans Hutton