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No library is richer in its field of concentration (the former Dutch East and West Indies) than that of the Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (the K.I.T.L.V.). Any listing of its contents accumulated over the past 175 years, serves as a useful general bibliography for historians as well as anthropologists and linguists. Between 1971 and 1975, the Institute's documentalist, G.A. Nagelkerke, prepared five of those, all of them published by the Institute at Stationsplein 10, Leiden, and still available through it. (Prices are quoted without postage).

Prof. Eberhard Schmitt (University of Bamberg, Germany) has initiated an ambitious project: the publication in German of a great number of documentary sources on early modern European Expansion. His proposal was made before an international scholarly committee in Bamberg on 6–8 Septermber, 1977, and received its full support. Concerning his project, Prof. Schmitt wrote the following article:Anyone who is even superficially informed about source publications concerning early modern history will quickly remark that publications are urgently needed about the history of the European Expansion. Especially in the German-speaking world is this need obvious. There are publications on various themes, as for instance the 'Bauernkrieg' or the Reformation, but very seldom do we find published sources on one of the most central developments of the history of the 15th–18th century, European expansion overseas and the reaction it caused on Europe itself.