GERMANY  .—Unfortunately lists of

German State archives (Geheimes Archiv) are not published . Repositories are very numerous: for their localities, see the Hand- and Addressbuch der deutschen Archive of C . A . H . Burkhardt (2nd ed., 1887) . In 'Prussia, besides the central repository at Berlin, there are sixteen provincial ones of importance . The other kingdoms and states forming part of the German empire have each their repository, not always at the capital . Some account of their contents will be found in Langlois and Stein (op. cit.) and in Fr. von Loher's Archivlehre . Grundziige der Geschichte, Aufgaben and Einrichtung unserer Archive : for the publication of State Records see Dahlmann-Waltz, Quellenkunde zur deutschen Geschichte; and for Prussian archives in particular R . Koser's Uber den gegenwartigen Stand der archivalischen Forschung 'in Preussen (1900) . For the numerous and valuable records of German towns reference may be made to the works already mentioned . Many of the towns, e.g .

Cologne, publish volumes drawn from their archives, and even include in them documents from other sources . Of special interest to English students is Konstantin Hohlbaum's work upon the Hanse towns . The Record Office has a volume of transcripts from German archives .