349 sheets, Contains and others: - Leave of absence and support of Prof. Dr. Georg Volkens for the participation in a scientific research trip to the Caroline Islands and Mariana Islands (German New Guinea), 1899 - Award of the Red Eagle Order 4th class to the inspector of the Botanical Garden Wilhelm Perring, 1901 - Service instruction for the custodian at the Botanical Garden in Berlin from 8. May 1883 - Service Instruction for the Custodes at the Botanical Garden in Berlin of 19 July 1884 - Service Instruction for the Assistants at the Botanical Garden and Museum in Berlin of 8 August 1901 - Service Instruction for the Custodes at the Botanical Garden and Museum in Berlin of 8 August 1901.

Contains among other things: Monthly Shipments of Ceylon Black Tea to all Ports in 1908-1909. Petition of the Pflanzerverein von Samoa to the German Reichstag, Apia, Nov. 1911.

Contains: Corrected manuscript

Plans, cost estimates, considerations on new concept, 1960-1962; correspondence to the Museum Schönebecker Str., 1912; procurement and description of objects, 1912; brochure e. Völkerkundl. Exhibition i. d. Stadthalle, 1913; Inquiry e. Collectors about acquisition e. Neu-Guinea-Götzen, incl. 2 photos, 1952-1954; Inquiry d. Museums Recklinghausen, 1957

Contains: Carton 2: - 1 stone tool with wooden handle - 1 stone tool, longer, damaged handle - 1 stone tool, broken wooden handle - 2 stone tools without wooden handle - 1 stone tool with short broken handle - 1 axe, Stone Age, New Guinea - 1/2 coconut in bast stand (drinking vessel) - 1 wooden vessel, Edge decorated (cup) - 1 animal head-like painted piece of wood, end broken off - 1 brown ribbon with beads - 1 ribbon turquoise/brown - 1 ribbon with light, flat jewellery parts - 1 bast jewellery part with straps and fringes - 1 part of bone/horn? beige with a smaller hole at the end - 1 stick with a fibrous frond - 1 fly swatter from Samoa - 1 fly swatter with feathers - 1 bast mini hat - 1 bone-drawn hard strand (stalk-like) - 2 light-coloured worked stones - 2 light-coloured stones with a hole in the middle

Contains: Box 1: - 2 pieces of ebony wood (1 of which with "East Africa" labels) - 1 comb, Guinea - 1 "clock" (round part with hands, necklace?) - 2 pieces of wood, wall decoration (1 x "Mulca", 1 x with flower motif) - 1 dried fruit or nut - 1 fish spear, New Guinea - 1 "Tetrapleura", ... Victoria, Cameroon, Dr. Schnee 28.04.1904 - 1 "Cassia Fistuea L", East Garden Victoria, Cameroon, Dr. Schnee 28.04.1904 - 1 knife in wooden case - 4 horns / teeth? (2 separated in the middle)

Contains: Box 3: - 1 water creator, wood, New Guinea - 1 bast bag black/beige (by Mr. Magi Magi... in East Africa), New Guinea - 2 shorter tusks - 1 drum, East Africa - 2 small tusks - 4 tusks of different sizes - 1 black polishing stone - 1 large shell of 2 parts - 1 piece of lava stone - 2 petrified decorated sponges

Contains: Moving box 2: - 1 turtle shell with chain, 1 part loose, 60 cm long - 1 turtle shell with chain, 1 part missing, 80 cm long - 1 wooden tube, inside open, decorated, 70 cm long - 1 fish spear, decorated, New Guinea - 1 ivory tooth, 95 cm long

Contains: Box 7: - 1 dagger with wooden part in wooden case, handle strongly decorated - 1 war horn for the "Maisa-Maisa uprising" in East Africa, dyed ivory - 1 wooden hatchet, New Guinea - 1 bast fan with decorated handle, end broken off (broken off part is there) - 1 tortoise shell as water creator, wooden handle on back - 1 tortoise shell with chain

Reports by H. Helmich, W. Blum, E. Hannemann, F. R. Knauertz, W. H. Siemers, F. Henkel-mann, E. Dahlhäuser and Sister Hattie Engeling Site Plan of Ragetta, 1909

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 among other things: Contract between the Reich and the Neuguinea-Compagnie for the assumption of sovereignty, Berlin 1899

Contains among other things: Australian press about Hitler and his government, 1935 - Photographs

Enthält u.a.: The Laws and regulations of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church. - Published for the general conference of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Churchs. - Revised Edition, Melbourne 1895 (Drucksache)

Contains among other things: Australian Mission Magazines, 1891

Contains among other things: Participation of Dr. Wegener in a Danish Greenland expedition, 1912 publication of an international bibliography for philosophy by Dr. Ruge, 1912 elaboration of a German-American bibliography by H.R. Jockisch, 1912 work of the German Society for the Dissemination of Good Jugendschriften and Books, 1912 participation of Dr. Wegener in a Danish Greenland expedition, 1912 publication of an international bibliography for philosophy by Dr. Ruge, 1912 work of the German Society for the Dissemination of Good Jugendschriften and Books, 1912 participation of Dr. Ruge in a German-American bibliography by H.R. Jockisch, 1912 work of the German Society for the Dissemination of Good Jugendschriften and Books, 1912 participation of Dr. Wegener in a Danish Greenland expedition. Hoffmann-Kutschke on a Bavarian research expedition to Persia, 1912 purchase of the private collection of fossil siliceous sponges from Dr. Schrammen, 1912 support of the Schützenverein Diederhofen (Lorraine), 1912 compilation of an international bibliography of the entire sciences by P. Schrammen. Niemann, 1913 publication of a work on the oldest agriculture of the Southern Germans by Prof. Braungart, 1913 German-English airship expedition to explore New Guinea, 1913 continuation of excavations on the Ionian Islands by Prof. Dörpfeld, 1913 work of the International Institute for Research in Missionary Science, 1913 research trip to China and Tibet under the direction of W. Stökner, 1913 work of the German Association for School Health Care, 1913 work of the Richard Wagner Scholarship Foundation, 1913

Powers of attorney for Präses Eich, A. Hoffmann, A. Hanke u. H. Helmich, 1887-1905; Wackernagel, Bösch u. Scheidt, 1891-1903; Agreements with the New Guinea Company, 1886

Contains among other things: "Buzzard", "Falcon" - Apia, Sydney, Marshall Area Reports on the conditions in Samoa, Ponape, Marshall Islands, New Guinea Protectorate 1895 to 1896

Bde 1-13 destroyed.