BY the death of the Rev. C. H. W. Johns, Master of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, and Canon of Norwich, Assyriology has lost another of its most prominent representatives in this country. It was almost exactly a year after the death of Prof. L. W. King that Canon Johns passed away. He had been noted as an Assyrian scholar for many years past; held the post of lecturer in Assyrian at his college of Queens', in the University of Cambridge, for fourteen years; and preceded Prof. King as Assyrian reader at King's College, London. These lectureships he vacated on his appointment as Master of St. Catharine's in 1909. The duties of the head of a college in no way interfered with the continued prosecution of his Assyrian studies, and to the last Dr. Johns was at work on the cuneiform inscriptions to which he had devoted a large part of his life. He was an excellent decipherer of the tablets, and had had much experience as a student of AshurbanipaFs library in the British Museum, to the officials of which, and especially to the late Prof. King, he was always persona grata and a valued colleague in science. His most notable publication is probably his “Assyrian Deeds and Documents,” published in 1898—a series of copies and translations of a large number of cuneiform legal and other records preserved in the British Museum. He also wrote on the famous legal code of Hammurabi, delivered the Schweich Lectures on the relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew peoples, and contributed articles on Mesopotamian law and history to various scientific journals and dictionaries, notably to the “Encyclopaedia Biblica.” His death is a great loss to the scientific study of Mesopotamian archæology.