Guide to the Correspondence of the British Museum (Natural History): Correspondence of the Arachnida Section (as filmed by the AJCP)

British Museum (Natural History) to E.Glanville Corney (Fiji): re ticks, 24 January 1906 (Item)

George Pernet (London): re Acarid cysts found in Rosella from Sydney, 30 June 1906; 6 July 1906; 16 July 1906 (Item)

E.L. Trouessart (Paris): re Acarid cysts found in Rosella, 7 July 1906; 14 July 1906; 16 July 1906 (Item)

M.Oliver (Christchurch), 25 March 1907 (Item)

Sending a description of a spider from Pitt Island, New Zealand.

Frederick Wood Jones, 14 November 1908 - 2 December 1908 (Item)

Re specimens of spiders he collected in Cocos Keeling Islands.

S.K. Capper (London): re spider's nest he brought back from Western Australia, 12 January 1910 (Item)

A. Dixie (3rd Middlesex Regiment, Singapore), 2 October 1910 (Item)

Asking advice on best method of sending to England a black crab scorpion.

Privates Digby and A. Dixie (Lebong, India): re circumstance of catching scorpion, 19 January 1911 (Item)

W.F. Howlett (Eketakuna, NZ), 13 July 1910 [sic] (Item)

That he will send Harvestmen; methods of preserving (blue pencil).

Charles Barnard (Rockhampton): sending scorpions, 29 June 1913 (Item)

British Museum (Natural History) to Barnard: identifying specimens sent, 23 August 1913 (Item)

J.B. Cleland (Department of Public Health, Sydney): sending mites obtained from rats, 24 March 1914 (Item)

Eustace Ferguson (Department of Public Health, Sydney), 10 July 1914 (Item)

Acknowledging identifications. (Filed with Cleland).

J.B. Cleland (Department of Public Health, Sydney), 21 May 1915 (Item)

That the mites giving them trouble are the same as found in Egypt and that gave trouble in Fremantle in 1908.

J.B. Cleland (Department of Public Health, Sydney), 25 July 1919 (Item)

Sending demodex from a bull and a pig, Dr Ferguson is still on military service.

William Greenwood (Botany): re his interest in Fijian spiders, n.d. (Answered 31 October 1918) (Item)

Lieutenant Charles Hamblin (Harrow), 3 April 1919 (Item)

Requests facilities to study Acardia while awaiting repatriation to Australia.

British Museum (Natural History) to H.R. Hogg, 17 April 1918 (Item)

Asking if he has the collection of spiders P.D. Montagu made in Montebello Islands; death of Montagu.

H.R. Hogg (Ross), 20 April 1918 (Item)

That he still has the Montebello Islands spiders collected by Montagu, also those collected by Haynes which survived the hurricane which blew his home into the sea.

Walter Froggatt (Department of Agriculture, Sydney), 17 November 1921 (Item)

Hopes to be able to send red spiders.

J.C. Moulton (Raffles Museum, Singapore) to Superintendent (Government Museum, Madras), 23 August 1920 (Item)

Re spider caught by Captain Turner of South Staffordshire Regiment. (Filed with letters from Gravely).

Gerald Hill (Australian Institute Tropical Medicine, Townsville), 29 August 1921 (Item)

Will send specimens from Northern Territory.

J.C. Moulton (Raffles Museum and Library, Singapore), 25 January 1921 - 13 May 1921 (Item)

Re millipede from Kelantan used by Malays to make poisons (4 letters).

S. Butler (St Kilda): requesting name of specialist on Australian spiders, 1923-05-19 (received) (Item)

H. Laurence (Melbourne): re his work on Demodex, 29 December 1923 (Item)

C.H. Tripp (Timaru): re spiders from a bee's nest, 15 March 1922 (Item)

H.C. Abraham (Topo Survey Office, Perak), 18 April 1925; 5 May 1925; 29 September 1925 (Item)

Sending plant mites and other parasites.

Gilbert Archy (Christchurch): acknowledging receipt of Chilopoda (2 letters), 18 March 1924 (Item)

Charles Chilton (Christchurch), 10 May 1924; 11 June 1924 (Item)

Re collection of NZ spiders sent to late H.R. Hogg.

L. Glauert (Perth): re Australian scorpions, 17 February 1925; 18 May 1925 (Item)

R. Speight (Christchurch): re spiders from sub-antarctic islands sent to Mr Hogg, 8 May 1924 (Item)

H.C. Abraham (Perak): introducing Captain Sworder, sending parasites, 31 January 1926 (Item)

A.H. Baldwin (Townsville): re mites from a flying fox, 15 October 1926 (Item)

P.A. Buxton (London): re scorpions from Samoa and New Hebrides. (7 letters), 29 June 1926 - 9 December 1926 (Item)

G. Dennes (Townsville): re mites, 18 August 1926 (Item)

Cedric Dover (Singapore, Kuala Lumpur), 15 May 1926 - 20 December 1926 (Item)

Re his work on pitcher-plants, mites from bat guano from Batu caves, visits to Batu caves (6 letters).

R. Hamlyn-Harris (Brisbane): re mites entering houses on birds, 7 December 1926 (Item)

[Acknowledgement] from British Museum (Natural History), 21 January 1927 (Item)

F.G. Holdaway (Adelaide Uni): re mites taken from pinetrees. (4 letters), 18 February 1926 - 8 September 1926 (Item)

C. Boden Kloss (Singapore): re collection from Mentawi Islands, Sumatra, 15 May 1926; 10 September 1926 (Item)

H.M. Pendlebury (Kuala Lumpur): re pseudoscorpions found in nest of Bremus, 8 July 1926 (Item)

Frank H. Taylor (Townsville): sending mites, 23 November 1926; 8 December 1926 (Item)

Cedric Dover (Kuala Lumpur): re material from Batu caves, 19 July 1927 (Item)

Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine (Townsville): sending spiders, 27 June 1927 (Item)

British Museum (Natural History) to F.C. Backhouse (Rabaul): identifying specimens, 22 September 1927 (Item)

F.C. Backhouse (Rabaul): sending acarines, 4 July 1927 (Item)

A.H. Baldwin (Townsville): sending mites from grocers stores where there was typhus, 9 March 1927 (Item)

L. Glauert (Perth): sending new species of millipede, 27 May 1927 (Item)

British Museum (Natural History): memo re Rodway, 7 June 1927 (Item)

F.A. Rodway (Nowra): sending spiders from a wasp's nest, 5 June 1927 (Item)

Gilbert Archey (Auckland): re identification of centipedes, 30 August 1928 (Item)

Gerald F. Hill (East Melbourne): re mites infesting gelatine industry, 2 October 1928 (Item)

G. Dennes (Townsville): sending mites collected from his legs while near Gordon's Creek, 10 October 1927 (Item)

To Dennes: re Larval ticks, 2 March 1928; 19 March 1927 (Item)

R. Hamlyn-Harris (Department of Health, Brisbane City Council), 25 January 1928; 21 April 1928; 31 May 1928 (Item)

Re mites from mosquito.

Anthony Musgrave (Sydney): requesting publication, 18 June 1928 (Item)

British Museum (Natural History) [acknowledgement], 8 August 1928 (Item)

Prof. G.H.F. Nuttall (Cambridge): identifying mites sent by Dennes. (5 letters), 2 March 1928 - 19 March 1928 (Item)

C.E. Pemberton (Honolulu): re sugarcane rust mite, 27 December 1927; 1 February 1928; 5 March 1928 (Item)

R.J. Tillyard (Canberra): re the evolution of insects, 12 May 1929 (Item)

Copy of part letter.

G. Dennes (Townsville): sending ticks and other parasites, 30 August 1929 (Item)

Dr F.C. Backhouse (London): re ticks from New Guinea. (9p), 21 February 1929 - 14 March 1929 (Item)

H.C. Abraham (Perak): sending spiders, 11 August 1929 (Item)

Frank H. Taylor (Townsville), 18 January 1927 - 9 September 1929 (Item)

Re new species of 'Scrub itch-mite' and its importance as a possible vector of Mossman Fever. (8 letters).

R.E.R. Grimmett (Wellington): re his work on New Zealand opilionids, 13 July 1930; 18 September 1930 (Item)

Gilbert Archey (Auckland): re New Zealand Chilopoda, 27 May 1930 (Item)

V.V. Hickman (Launceston): re Tasmanian spiders, 29 May 1931; 23 July 1931 (Item)

L. Glauert (Perth): re species of Polyxenidae and their habitat, 9 March 1931; 11 April 1931; 28 May 1931 (Item)

C. Anderson and Susan Finnegan (Sydney): re spiders of Great Barrier Reef, 12 August 1931; 26 October 1931; 10 December 1931 (Item)

Gilbert Archey (Auckland): re specimens of centipede lost in post. (5 letters), 7 May 1931 - 19 November 1931 (Item)

C.S.M. Hopkirk (Wellington): re mite used in apiary, 5 March 1931 (Item)

F.N. Chasen (Singapore): sending mites from Mt Kinabalu, 30 June 1932; 5 August 1932; 3 September 1932; 4 October 1932 (Item)

F.A. Rodway (Nowra): sending specimens from Comerong Island, 20 September 1932; 8 November 1932 (Item)

G.M. Heydon (Sydney): re porocephalids found in wild rabbit, 18 August 1932; 3 October 1932 (Item)

British Museum (Natural History) Note, 9 April 1932; 12 April 1932 (Item)

Note of a letter from Bishop Gilbert White of Epping with observations on South Australian spider. (Letter lacking).

R.A. Lever (Tulagi): re collecting in British Solomon Islands, 26 January 1932; 13 September 1932 (Item)

Gilbert Archey (Auckland): re identification of centipedes, encloses drawings, 14 November 1934 (Item)

B.A.R. Gater (Singapore): re larval trombidiids, 13 June 1934; 25 October 1934; 17 November 1934 (Item)

R.A. Lever (Tulagi): re mites from B.S.I, 28 June 1934; 20 April 1934; 28 August 1934; 21 July 1934 (Item)

N.C.E. Miller (Kuala Lumpur): sending ticks from a tapir, 18 July 1934 (Item)

South Australian Museum (Adelaide), 3 May 1934; 11 June 1934; 2 May 1934 (Item)

Re specimen of Australian Polyxenid Symxenus novahollandiae. Silv. 1923.

Dr Morris M. Wall (Dunedin): re his work on ticks, 3 July 1934; 15 July 1934 (Item)

Gilbert Archey (Auckland): re type specimen of New Zealand Centipedes, 5 February 1935; 20 August 1935 (Item)

F. Cam Backhouse (Rabaul): sending rats ticks and mites from New Guinea, 16 January 1935 (Item)

E.H. Bryan and Herbert Gregory (Honolulu), 4 June 1935 - 15 October 1935 (Item)

Re scorpions from the Pacific collected by Mangarevan expedition in 1934. (19p).

Herbert Hale (Adelaide): sending spider, 11 November 1935 (Item)

R.A. Lever (Tulagi), 12 October 1934 - 2 December 1935 (Item)

That he has started an ecological survey of the island; hopes to collect more specimens from inland areas; sending specimens.

H. Wormsley (Adelaide): sending papers on Australian and New Zealand acarina, 29 January 1935; 29 October 1935 (Item)

British Museum (Natural History) [acknowledgement], 6 March 1935 (Item)

John R. Baker (Oxford), 12 June 1936 - 18 June 1936 (Item)

Re specimens of Pedipalp and Phalangid collected in New Hebrides by Oxford University Expedition. (5 Letters)

R.A. Lever (Tulagi): re his work on fauna of the island, 22 April 1936; 17 June 1936; 22 June 1936 (Item)

British Museum (Natural History) to Surgeon Lieutenant P.D.D. de Labilliere (HMS Leith, New Hebrides), 9 December 1936 (Item)

Re specimens sent.

M.C. Mutus (Batavia): re spiders found in nose of a Chinese man, 6 January 1937; 10 April 1937 (Item)

R.A. Lever (Suva), 22 February 1938; 1 April 1938; 12 May 1938 (Item)

That his spiders from Solomon Islands to be described by Dr Berland of Paris.

B.J. Marples (Dunedin): re his work on Katipo spiders, 4 May 1938; 20 June 1938; 8 December 1938 (Item)

Gilbert Archey (Auckland), 19 May 1938; 27 June 1938 (Item)

Re spiders caught by soldiers during exercise at Wanganui.

W.B. Gurney (Sydney): re identification of ticks, 14 October 1938; 1 December 1938 (Item)

H. Womersley (Adelaide): re specimen of Latrodectes hasselti, 23 December 1937; 25 January 1938 (Item)

Carl E.M. Gunther (Bulolo), 31 January 1940; 8 February 1940; 8 May 1940 (Item)

Re his work on larval Trombidiid mites and their relation to endemic typhus.

Arthur W. Parrott (Christchurch): re his work on New Zealand opiliones, 26 November 1939; 8 March 1940 (Item)

V.V. Hickman (Hobart): sending spiders, 6 May 1939; 6 June 1939 (Item)

Allan Barrie (Selangor): re spiders from Batu Caves. (5p), 21 April 1939 - 23 June 1939 (Item)

A.O. Watkins (Guernsey), 1 September 1939 - 25 October 1939 (Item)

Re 'nest' of spider in Western Australia weighted down by lead shot. Includes: 21 June 1928 Watkins (Perth) to Prof. Nicholl (University of Western Australia) describing the nests and the habitat of the spiders. (5p).

B.J. Marples (Dunedin): sending Katipo spiders, 14 December 1938; 14 February 1939 (Item)