Contains: Purchase of ethnographical works, in particular from Samoa; offer lists of ethnographical works from the South Seas and Africa, 6 p. Duplication.old signatures: 475.

Hamburg South Sea expedition, 1908; excavation law of 26.3.1914; murder of German missionaries on the Gazelles peninsula (German New Guinea, New Vorpommern), 1904; inclusion of ethnology in the curriculum of the Cologne School of Economics, 1910; visiting hours of the municipal museums in the winter half-year 1929/30 1.10.1929-31.3.1930.Old signatures: 26.

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