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 404 Additions and Corrections. P. 398. — On the subject o( the female divinity whose worship was so widely spread over the whole East and over the Mediterranean coasts, the dissertation of Herr GELZER, Zum Cultus der Assyrischen Aphrodite (Lepsius's Zeitschrift) 1875, p. 127) may be consulted with profit. We received the admirable Guide to the Kuyundjik Gallery, published by the authorities of the British Museum, too late to make use of it for our work. It joins to an exhaustive account of the bas-reliefs of Sennacherib and Assurbanipal a description of the smaller objects contained in the glass cases of the same gallery. Many of these objects date from a very early period, and many were found in Chaldaea. Some of the more interesting texts are translated by Mr. Pinches ; of others he gives a summary. The body of the work is preceded by an introduction giving such details of Assyrian history, religion and manners as are required by the general student. When a similar brochure is forthcoming for the Nimroud gallery — and the energy of the English officials is a guarantee that we shall not have to wait long for it — visitors to the museum will be in possession of all that is necessary to enable them to profit to the fullest extent by its superb collection. WLftj?