A decorated carte-de-visite album with "In remembrance of our comfortable stay on board of HM Ship DRAGON at the Gulf of Aden. Yours truly Dr Emil Riebeck" inscribed on the cover. The album came to the National Maritime Museum from the Admiralty, and within the album is a recent note stating "Presented (together with a commemorative silver bracelet) for the officers of HMS DRAGON, 1934, by Mrs Peach, in memory of her father". The frontispiece to the album is a watercolour drawing, possibly of Aden or of Mukalla, Saudi Arabia, signed and dated "G. S. 1881".
The album contains 11 cabinet sized portraits, tentatively identified as follows:
1. Dr Emil Riebeck, by G Th. Hase & Sohn, Freiburg, dated 1881
2. C. Rosset, by G. Th Hase & Sohn, Feiburg, dated 1881
3. Dr G. Schweinfurth, by N. Fettel &Cie, Alexandria, dated August 1881
4. Dr Otto Mantey, by Helios, Alexandria & Cairo, dated June 1881
5. Thomas Lowry, by a Far Eastern photographer, dated 30 July 1881
6. John Caramagna, by Giovanni Morotti, Spezia & Carrara, dated 16 May 1882
7. "Royck", by Pun Lun, Hong Kong, dated 1890
8. [left blank]
9. A foreign Naval Officer, by Westfield & Co, Calcutta
10. An unknown naval officer (possibly a captain), by Jackson & Co, Southsea
12. A group of unown naval ratings and NCOs, circa 1875
12. Sayyd Bargharsh, Sultan of Zanzibar (identified by Shiekh Mohammed Al Qasimi, 3/9/1991), by Maull & Co, Piccadilly & Cheapside
The album also contains copies of letters describing the reason for the presentation of the album to Grey Hulton. Schweinfurth, Reibeck, Mantey and Rosset were members of the Geographical Society at Berlin, to whom Grey Hulton had afforded assistance and passage between Socotra and Aden in May 1881.