The subject which forms the topic of the lectures being given by Professor Lyon is one almost entirely new to students of the University. It was not until comparatively recently that American archaeologists made the first steps towards carrying out the projects of excavation and discovery in Babylonia and Assyria. In their first determined effort, however, they were signally successful, and the specimens of Babylonian books which they secured form the nucleus of a collection which it is to be hoped will increase from year to year as discoveries are made. It is upon this American collection together with the famous specimens accumulated by European scholars, that Professor Lyons will lecture. He will include in his explanations, discussions of the decipherment language, and contents of the Babylonfan books.

The University has been extremely fortunate in having been the recipient of a collection of these valuable antiquities presented by Mr. Stephen Salisbury. This new Harvard collection will form one of the subjects of the lectures which should be of the utmost interest to Harvard men.