The annual report of the Semitic Museum by the Curator, Professor D. G. Lyon, commences with a summary of the addresses delivered at the opening of the Museum last February.

The report enumerates important acquisitions of the year, among which have been an original Assyrian inscription from King Assurnazirkal (9th century B. C.) on an elaborate slab about three feet square, and three models made at Jerusalem by Dr. Schick, a German archaeologist, who lived and studied in that city for fifty years. The model of chief value is one of Haramesh-Sherif, nine feet by eleven, and is an exact representation of the mosques and other buildings occupying the site of Solomon's Temple and Palace. The second model, of the same size, is a restoration of the Temple of Solomon and The Temple of Herod, while the third, considerably smaller, represents the Tabernacle. These models arrived at Cambridge last December, but as considerable time and care are needed in setting them up, it will be long before they can be placed on exhibition.

In the conclusion of his report, Professor Lyon calls attention to the importance of original research work in Palestine, Babylonia, Assyria, Persia and Egypt, now being carried on by several European and American universities. He writes: "It will be a happy day for the University and for the Museum when some friend or friends shall make it possible for us to have a share in this most fascinating and most important work of recovering and of publishing the records of those great peoples whose ideas constitute such an important element in our own civilization."