GRE-HAY, 03 November 1814-16 July 1890

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File Volume 14

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ff.3-4 Sir George Grey (Auckland) to Owen; Loss in fire of large collection of fossil bones; acquisition of moa bones. [29 Nov 1849]

ff.5-6 Lady Grey (Wellington) to Owen; Despatch of three birds; their habits and care. [30 Aug 1853]

ff.35-36 R.C. Gunn (Launceston) to Owen; Death of E.C. Hobson of Melbourne; despatch of his fossils; introduces Gunn's son, studying medicine in England. [10 May 1848]

ff.110-201 Sir Julius von Haast (Christchurch, London) to Owen; (23 letters) Subjects include search for moa bones in Nelson Province; complexities of Tertiary geology; discovery of camp of prehistoric moa-hunters; reconstruction of moa; W. Mantell; J.H. Hector; Canterbury Museum; attitude of Owen to colonial anatomists; meanness of British Museum to colonial museums; G. Bennett; visit to England (1886); antiquity of moa; publications; Sir Walter Buller; disagreements with Owen about classification. Includes photograph of von Haast. [1859-1886]

ff.206-207 F.A. Hagenauer (Gippsland) to Sir Ferdinand von Mueller;Discovery of new-born platypus on River Avon. [04 Oct 1886]

f.211 G.B. Halford to Owen; Requests Owen chair farewell dinner for S. Pittard emigrating to Sydney. [05 Sept 1859]

f.212 G.B. Halford (Melbourne) to Owen; Arrival in Melbourne; Owen's request for information on monotremes [24 March 1863]

ff.214-215 G.B. Halford to Owen; Acknowledges memoir on gorilla; Halford's paper on snake-poisoning; collection of platypi. [27 Sept 1867]

f.249 J.F. Hampton to Owen; Forwards natural history specimens from J. Bicheno in Van Diemen's Land. [16 May 1846]

ff.255-256 E.T. Hardman (Dublin) to Owen; Discoveries of Diprotodon in Western Australia. [20 March 1886]

ff.273-274 R. Harkness (Cork) to Owen; Bones from Darling Downs. [07 Feb 1870]

f.275 R. Harkness to Owen; Bones from Darling Downs. [25 Feb 1870]

ff.305-306 C.H. Hartmann (Toowoomba) to Owen; Sends outline of head of marsupial lion. [27 March 1883]

ff.307-308 C.H. Hartmann to Owen; Sends head and underjaw of marsupial lion. [1883]

ff.536-537 F. Haynes to Owen; Sends skulls of natives found in Western Australia. [27 Jan 1862]

ff.539-540 G.H. Haydon to Owen; Report of hundreds of moa bones ploughed up in field in Otago. [02 Jan 1864

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