Contains: Reports in English by J. Graf von Pfeil about his travels after: New Guinea Dec. 1887 - July 1889, Java July - Sept. 1887, East Africa 1891, South Africa May - Dec. 1892, Spain and Morocco March - May 1897

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.

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".

Direktionskorrespondenz und weitere Unterlagen 1937-1941: 1 portfolio, loose-leaf collection; copies or handwritten, authors: Diels, Dr. Friedrich Bolle, R. Pilger; Prof. Dr. Hoppe (all Botanischer Garten Berlin), Milos Deyl (botanist, Prague); Wilhelm Engelmann (publishing bookshop Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig), Wimmer (priest, editor of the Lobeliaceae for the plant kingdom). contents: air-raid protection measures in the Botanical Museum (removal of alcohol collection etc.)); financial means of the Englerstiftung; whereabouts of lost herbarium loans (Spanish Civil War); reminder to return herbarium loans; printing of various volumes of the Pflanzenreich (Richtlinien zur Korrektur, Korrespondenz mit der Verlagsbuchhandlung Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig), editing of the Lobeliaceae für Pflanzenreich scientific manuscripts on the flora of SW Africa, individual letters [see FA1/1] diaries 1943-1945 (copy, p.p. in copy); incl. transcript; diaries 1943-1945 (copy, p.p. in copy); incl. transcript

Hand-excerpts of his works, manuscripts, printed matter, photographs from New Guinea; chronicle of the Neuhaus family is missing