Bastian’s Zeitschrift für Ethnologie was begun at Berlin in 1869, and later added a Supplement.
The Anthropologische Gesellschaft of Vienna began its Mittheilungen in 1870; and in 1887 the Prähistorische Commission of the Kais. Akad. der Wissenschaften at Vienna printed the first number of its Mittheilungen.
The Verein für Anthropologie in Leipzig published but a single number of a Bericht in 1871.
The Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte continued its Verhandlungen for 1871-72 only; and the Göttinger Anthropologischer Verein made but a bare beginning (1874) of its Mittheilungen.
The Bericht of the Museum für Völkerkunde was begun in Leipzig in 1874.
The Münchener Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte began the publication of Beiträge in 1876.
In all these publications there have been papers interesting to American archæologists, if only in a comparative way, and at times American subjects have been frequent, especially in later years. The publications of zoölogical and geographical societies have in some respects been at times of equal interest, but it has not been thought worth while to enumerate them.[1941]
The Königliche Museum at Berlin has a considerable collection of American antiquities, which has been fostered by Humboldt and others, and the ethnological department has made some important publications like those relating to Amerika’s Nordwestküste.[1942]
Waitz in his Anthropologie der Naturvölker (vol. iii.; Die Amerikaner, Th. i., Leipzig, 1862) has enumerated the literature of American anthropology upon which he depended.
The interest in most of the other European countries is more remotely American. The Museum of Ethnography at St. Petersburg is not without some objects of interest.[1943]