Contains: Concepts from his time as envoy in Berlin, mostly reports to Württemberg to the State Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the planned visit of Emperor Wilhelm II to unveil an imperial monument in Stuttgart (1898), recall of the German governor in D e u t s c h - O s t a f r i k a Julius von Soden (1893); boxer uprising in China (1900); resignation of Minister Hermann von Mittnacht (1900); death of Queen Victoria of England (1901) Also includes: telegrams from Count August von Eulenburg
Darin: 3 photographs of the school in Tanga, 1894.
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)