Scope: 342 Sheets.File reference: A2 XIII 3g 2403 XIV 1 40Contains: Application by Dr. Theodor Bönner, Berlin, for a post in the newly founded museum (1909, with recommendation by Albert Heimann and statement by Max Wallraf, Wildbad, concerning refusal to the applicant); correspondence between Fischer and the administration concerning participation in the exhibition "Japan and East Asia in the Art of the Verein Ausstellungspark München, loan of objects, exhibition regulations, reimbursement of travel expenses for fishermen (1909); correspondence with Fischer, St. Petersburg, Germany; letter to the administration concerning participation in the exhibition "Japan und Ostasien in der Kunst des Vereins Ausstellungspark München, Ausleihe von Gegenständen, Ausstellungsbestimmungen, Reisekostenvergütung für Fischer (1909). Moritz and Reichenhall, concerning travel expenses, discussions with Brantzky concerning the extension of the museum, employment relationship Fischer to the director of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, controversy in the magazine Der Cicerone, counterstatement by Fischer, establishment of the budget 1910, contractual matters, transport of the collection from Kiel to Cologne by the company L. Tischendorf, Kiel (1909, with Cicerone, issues 16 and 17, 1909), offer of the newspaper cutting service Dr. Max Goldschmidt, Berlin (1909), recommendation of Dr. Hans Wirtz, Tsingtau, by Emil Bau (1910); correspondence with the forwarding company Mathias Rohde

Scope: 256 sheets. Reference: HI XIII 3d 3XIII 19a 1147-52,286.Contains: Transfer of the Joest´schen collection to the Bayenturm, reports by the director of the Natural History Museum, Dr. Carl Hilburg (1898-1899); donation of the Joest collection by Eugen Rautenstrauch and Adele geborene Joest, donation conditions, enrichment of the collection by gifts, including purchases of Eugen Rautenstrauch (1899-1901, including Benin bronzes, other objects from Benin, from Siam), from other members of the Rautenstrauch family (1908), offer by the travelling zoologist H. Förster for sale of his collection (1899, with catalogue) of pearl mussels (1900); collection Adolf Diehl, Wiesbaden, mediated by the editor of the Kölnische Zeitung, Prosper Müllendorf (1900, with catalogue); Meetings of the Commission for the Museum of Natural History (1899), takeover of a Peruvian collection from the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (1899), draft concerning the installation of the Joest Collection (1899), donation of quivers and arrows from Togo from the Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin (1900), opening of the collection, Newspaper article (1900), offer by Oscar Mengelbier to purchase his Chilean-Araucanian Indian collection (1900), offer by Hermann Rolle, Berlin (1901) of a natural history collection, donation of two works from the Zulu coffee shops (1901), a Java collection by Dr. Schmitz, Heidelberg (1901), Cameroon collection by company v. Tippelskirch

Contains: Place of exhibition: Tsingtau, China. unorderable until: 2050. old signatures: D 008.