Contains: Correspondence about the Africa expedition of Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin; colonial war memorial. Darin: Recording of the Statutory Status of the German Colonies

description: Contains:StartVNr: E 3/1908; EndVNr: E 899/1908; and others: Cooperation with the Botanical Museum, page 135, the Botanical Central Office for the Colonies at the Royal Botanical Garden and Museum, page 85 f., and the Museum of Natural History, Berlin, page 257 f., 271.- Sale of doublets to the Hzgl. collections of the Veste Coburg, page 87 ff.., the Upper Silesian Museum, Gleiwitz, pp. 193 ff., the Wachsenburg Committee, Gotha, pp. 208 ff., the Museums of Ethnology, Frankfurt a.M., pp. 130, 204, 206 ff., Cologne, pp. 203, 279 ff., and Leipzig, (1908), pp. 145 ff. - Cooperation with the Imperial and Royal Court of Germany (k.k.) Geologische Reichsanstalt, Vienna, (1908), pp. 116 ff. - Sale of duplicates to private individuals, (1908), pp. 18 - Cooperation with the governors of DOA, pp. 185 ff., Cameroon, pp. 252, and Togo, (1908), among others on the whereabouts of the ethnographica from the colonial exhibition in Friedenau, pp. 67, 200 f., 205, 276 - Cooperation with the Society Northwest Cameroon, Duala, (1907, 1908), p. 1 - Cooperation with missionaries, p. 68, 188 f., 259 ff, and the Basler Mission, (1908), p. 78 - Beunat: "Catalogue d' armes et objets divers prosenant du Congo ...", (1908), Abzug, p. 6 ff - "Litteratur zur Völkerkunde der Watussi, Wasimsa, Wassuttuma, Waschaschi, Wayaia etc. Nach Mittheilung von B. Struck.", (1908), pp. 22 ff. - Catalogue of offers Just, Görlitz, (1908), Printed by Druckschr., pp. 26 f. - Rohrbach: Donation of an autograph by Njoya von Bamum, (1908), pp. 28 f. - "... Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory ..." In: Vossische Ztg. : 1908-01-22, pp. 44 - Adametz: Report on the Use of Juju Heads, (1907), pp. 74 ff., and on Collecting in Connection with Military Actions, (1908), pp. 80 f.- "Lepidopten-List der Naturhistorischen Anstalt von Arnold Voelschow in Schwerin in Mecklenburg", (1907), Druckschr., pp. 95 ff.- Fromms departure for a DOA expedition, In: Geraisches Tagebl. : 1908-03-11, p. 183 - "Report on the activities of the Wachsenburg Committee and the Wachsenburg Association in 1907", p. 211 f., "Report of the 'Verein Wachsenburg' zu Gotha on the year 1907", (1908), print print, page 213 - Dempwolff: Sendung eines Schädels, (1908), page 248 - Struck: "Schutzgebiet Kamerun. Questionnaire for the first recording of the languages of the Adamaua tribes, compiled on behalf of the Royal Museum of Ethnology ...", (1908), Druckschr., pp. 253 ff.- Schmitz: Bericht aus Rhodesien, (1908), pp. 260 f.

Contains: Correspondence concerning planning and financing (e.g. creation of an expedition fund) as well as follow-up (e.g. operation of the order award to the patron Hugo von Gahlen, owner of factory and manor); scientific expert's opinion: drawn map of Central Africa; reports on the expedition in the "Tägliche Rundschau" (mainly parts of the travel report "Ins Innerste Afrikas", 1908, written by Adolf Friedrich himself).

The partial estate contains documents of the expedition to the then D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a of 1907/08, in particular proofs of scientific publications, travel reports, newspaper notes, work plans, diary entries, letters to Hans Meyer.