Adolph Bastiaa, a German traveller, born in Bremen, June 26, 1826. He is the son of a merchant, was educated as a physician, and in 1851 went to Australia as the surgeon of a sailing vessel. He travelled in South America, the West Indies, the United States, China, India, and South Africa, and afterward made a journey through Burmah, Siam, Java, the Philippines, Japan, and China, returning to Europe through Asiatic Russia. Since 1868 he has been director of the ethnographical collection in the Berlin museum. In 1869 he established the Zeitschrift fur Ethnologie, the organ of the Berlin anthropological and ethnological society. His principal works are: Die Volker des Oestlichen Asiens (6 vols., Leipsic and Jena, 1866-'71); Afrikanische Reisen (Bremen, 1859); Der Mensch in der Geschichte (3 vols., Leipsic, 1860); Beitrdge zur vergleichenden Psychologie (Berlin, 1868); Sprachtergleichende Studien, besonders auf dem Gelriete der indochinesischen Spraehen (Leipsic, 1870); and Die Eechtsver-haltnisse der verschiedenen Volker der Erde (Berlin, 1872), a learned contribution to comparative ethnology.