Correspondence, especially on New Guinea; petition and request to the German government to return d. Südseegebiete, signed by RMG, Neuendettelsau u. Liebenzell, 1918; Miss. Keysser: Missionary results of the Ramu Markham journey, 1919; J. Welsch: My stay in the Neuendettelsauer Mission area, 11 p., ms., 1919; Report by Miss. Flierl, New Guinea, about Captain Detzner, 1922; draft of an instruction for the Neuendettelsau missionaries in New Guinea, 8 p., Dr., no year; report about Neuendettelsau, by you. Schilberg, 1946; obituary for Miss. Flierl, 1949; Obituary for Miss Dir. Katterfeld, 1964

Correspondence on application and education, curriculum vitae, certificates, 1912-1913; Instruction for Leonard Lösel, 1913; Letters and reports from New Guinea, 1913-1914; Nachricht vom Tod Lösels, 1916

Application, CV and certificates, 1928-1929; Information about Loos, 1928-1929; Correspondence about further education, 1930; Employment contract as carpenter of the RMG in New Guinea, 1931; Letters and reports from there, 1931-1932; Decision not to serve the Lutheran Mission, 1932; Correspondence about further employment of Loos, 1933-1937; Employment certificate, 1937

Local police under the command of a German officer with the murderer of the governor / Photographer: Scherl

Work reports and correspondence; correspondence with the London Mission Society

Contains: List of mussel species, list of materials for colouring the topa, animals from Surinam (Latin and Indian names); collection lists compiled under the heading "Remarks on individual pieces of the museum": Missionary Bergmann (German New Guinea), Baron von Bülow (Herero, Owambo), von Carnap-Quernheimb (Cameroon, Togo, Congo), Capitain Dallmann (Various countries), Eckstein (Boers, Zulu), Dr. Ehser (Bali collection), Dr. O. Finsch, Haas brothers (British New Guinea), Kollmann (Uganda, Ushashi, East Africa), Kromecken (?) (Tokyo, Middle Java, Sikkim), Schmidt (Lagos), I. Schneider (Palestine, Egypt, Omdurman), Von Sieglin, Baron von Soden (Africa), Prof. Soest/Eugen Rautenstrauch (South Sea Collection), Sprochte (?), Ludwig Wießner (Untervolta, Sudan)

Vol. 1; Negotiations with the Diakonen-Anstalt Duisburg on the takeover of Lindner into missionary service, 1930; Curriculum Vitae, Testimonies and Health Certificate, 1930; Correspondence with Lindner e.g. on and during a stay in England, 1930-1931; Booking note on Lindner's pension scheme, 1931; Employment contract as a teacher at the assistant school in New Guinea, 1931; Lindner circulars, published by "Freundeskreis der Rheinischen u. Gesundheitszeugnis" (Friends of the Rhineland and Northern Germany). Der Neuguinea-Mission", partly printed, 1931-1932; letters and reports of Lindner from New Guinea, 1931-1933; curriculum vitae and testimonies for bride Martha Kurz, 1932; correspondence with Martha Kurz because of engagement and marriage ceremonies. Ausreiseangelegenheiten, 1932-1933; Korrespondenz mit ihm im Heimatdienst der RMG u. der Rheinischen Bekenntnissynode, 1933-1940; indictment of the public prosecutor against him for "violation of the V.O. zum Schutze von Volk u. Staat", 1934; vol. 2; Correspondence with Lindner in the field, 1941-1943; Versorgungsangelleheiten Lindner, i.a. correspondence with Praeses Held, 1944-1953; Letters from the time of the French POW, 1946-1949; Correspondence with Lindner as pastor of different communities, 1950-1963; Correspondence on supply matters, 1948-1950

Contains: - o.K, o.J. Letter from an African to Mr Mergner in German translation without sender - Memmingerberg 1948. Albrecht to Mr Mergner - Kumkanas 1946. v. Alvensleben to Mr Mergner - Berlin 1941, 1943/44, 1946. Working group for mission / student federation for mission (Brennecke) to Mrs Mergner or circular letter without recipient (7 letters) - Rummelsberg 1946. Bavarian association for medical mission (Olpp) to Mrs Mergner - Braunschweig, Würzburg, Rummelsberg n.d., 1948 Bavarian Association for Medical Mission (Olpp) to Mr Mergner (3 letters) - Leipzig 1942 Bock to Mr Mergner - Magdeburg, Wernigerode 1946/47 Ground Staff to Mrs Mergner (4 letters) - Braunschweig 1948/49, 1951 Ground Staff (Wollermann)

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.

Will information about colonization of New Guinea

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

Good wishes; Arrow back from New Guinea

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".

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

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.

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

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".

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

Letters to Cap colony, Nama and Hereroland, New Guinea and China

Verf. sends an essay with pictures about New Guinea for publication and explains its text and pictures

Contains: Sample of a type of pea cultivated there