Conferences to Borneo, Sumatra, Nias, China, New Guinea, Herero, Nama and Capland; additionally some official letters after Rohden's death (1889);

Contains: Letters Pfeils to relatives about his Africa expedition - Reports and letters Pfeils from New Guinea to relatives and acquaintances - Manuscript for Pfeils book: "Suggestions for practical colonisation".

Contains: Copies of letters and reports Pfeils from East Africa, New Guinea, South Africa and Berlin to expedition members (e.g. Carl Peters), to members of settlements and other societies, to relatives and acquaintances

He received from Australia: 1. herbarium australe, australian phanerogams, cent. A u, B; 2nd Filices of the Samoa Islands ca. 120 different species. Each collection is available in several volumes. 25 m a centurion. He'd trade too.

Letter from Bishop Mackenzie to Sydney Strong, dated Mayotta Feb 27 1861, giving account of progress of Universities Mission and of D.L. Ms. copy of extract.

Sends copy of a letter from Heinrich Zahn from New Guinea about pitches in the Papua languages. Looks thus relationship to the Central African languages confirmed.

Find kinship between the Papuan and Sudanese languages. He refers to [Otto] Dempwolff, whose report from New Guinea he encloses as a copy. Wundt asks whether his speech on the "true war" had already appeared in print.

Sending an autograph

Military service. Museum thing. At Eisenhofer: trapezoid zither, buffalo bell. Offer: China Tang Bell, Horn New Guinea [Cross Snail Horn MIR 1280?].

Publication of a map of the Wissmann-Pogge route

Expedition; Tod Böhms; equipment of the Stenley expedition

Processing of the meteorological diaries of Wissmann and Pogges by Danckelmann

Asked to discuss his work "Deutsch-Neuguinea" and the last work of his brother Egon Zöller, who died on 2 June this year, "Die Universitäten und technischen Hochschulen".

Good wishes; Arrow back from New Guinea

Ask Ehlers whether the Göttingen Museum is interested in the scientific objects he collected on New Guinea and the surrounding islands.

Will information about colonization of New Guinea

Submit a contribution to the "Globus" - not yet the one about New Guinea. Although Dr. Petermann is very committed to this, it will not be easy to find a full publisher for the manuscript. Expects the recipient's judgement on the smaller contribution.