Edition of the Ethnographical Department of the Russian Geographical Society. "Notes" were issued from 1867 to 1917, and in 1925 in Saint-Petersburg / Petrograd. The publication frequency was not regular. Editors (simultaneously): V. I. Lamansky, L. P. Maykov, A. N. Pypin, N. I. Veselovsky, F. M. Istomin, A. I. Saveliev, F. F. Miller, and P. I. Giltebrandt, P. A. Matveev, P. I. Lerch, P. A. Sokolovsky, I.N. Halfinkin. Each issue featured separate monographs on ethnography, religion, culture, and literature of the peoples of Russia.
Presented issues: 1883, 1884, 1886, 1889, 1890, 1904, 1908, 1913-1915, 1917.