There is unusual archaeological activity in Iraq during the present winter and the season promises to be one of the most fruitful in the history of archaeological researches in that country. Dr. Woolley at Ur has already come upon another royal tomb which promises to rival in magnificence and importance the royal tombs which he discovered last year. In it were found the skeletons of numerous attendants who were killed and buried with their master. The tomb also contained another chariot together with the skeletons of the charioteer and of the donkeys which had drawn it. At Tarkhalan Dr. Pfeiffer, assisted by Mr. Starr and Mr. Wilenski, has continued the work begun in the previous season by Dr. Chiera under the auspices of Harvard University and the Baghdad School. At last report they had cleared out a large number of additional rooms in the great building which Dr. Chiera believed was a temple, and had found many additional tablets together with various types of pottery. One striking object was a large pottery incense-burner in the shape of a miniature house with windows and a chimney, giving us perhaps an idea of the formation of the houses of ancient Nuzi. In addition to the numerous tablets that have been discovered, an interesting, complicated, and wellthought-out system of drainage has been traced, which shows that the inhabitants of ancient Nuzi had fairly good sanitary arrangements. The work of Dr. Waterman at Ctesiphon is going steadily forward, as is that of Dr. Andrae at Seleucia. Both we understand are making important discoveries. Dr. Chiera has left America on his way to Iraq in the interest of the University of Chicago and may undertake a small excavation at Khorsabad before he returns. We understand that Mr. R. Campbell Thompson is also opening again the trenches at Nineveh where British excavators have so often in the past made important discoveries. The French are also re-opening the work at Telloh, and a German expedition is, we are informed, excavating at Warka, the ancient Erech. Miss Garrod, the discoverer of the Neanderthal remains at Shuqbah, with her party, including Mr. Franks of Harvard, recently visited Dr. Pfeiffer at Tarkhalan. Miss Garrod's party had completed for the present their excavation of paleolithic sites and caves near Suleimanieh. The party was on its way to Palestine. According to the latest announcement by Professor Langdon, the Oxford-Chicago (Field Museum) expedition at Kish has been working this season in excavations below the water level which was reached in last season's work. The water level is about nine feet higher than when the city was first founded. By exhausting the water from small areas by hydraulic devices, the excavation has been carried down to virgin soil. Near the top of the Tell are the foundations of the temple repaired by Nabonidus, who ruled from 555 to 538 B.C., and the strata from this point down to the earliest occupation of the site have been carefully noted. Some 55 feet below the well preserved walls of Nabonidus the ruins of plano-convex walls of the Sumerian type of brick now appear.