In the fourth volume of Schrader’s _Keilinscriftliche Bibliothek_, 1896, Dr. F. E. Peiser adopted the plan of arranging the then known contract-texts in chronological order. He gave, in transliteration and translation, the texts of thirty-one tablets of this period. Of these many had been previously published by Strassmaier and Meissner, but Dr. Peiser’s renderings and short notes are of great value. In 1896 began the grand series of publications, _Cuneiform Texts from Babylonian Tablets, etc., in the British Museum, printed by order of the Trustees_, which has been continued to the present date. Volumes II., IV., VI., and VIII. contain copies by Dr. T. G. Pinches of no fewer than three hundred and ninety-five texts from the B1 and B2 Collections. They also contain a number of letters and other texts, some of a date as late as Xerxes, but from the same two collections. In the _Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society_,1897(31) and 1899,(32) Dr. T. G. Pinches gives transliterations, translations, and comments upon fifteen of these texts. A word of notice must be given to the excellent Guides published by the trustees of the British Museum. The _Guide to the Kouyunjik Gallery_, with four autotype plates, 1885, and the _Guide to the Nimroud Central Saloon_ are now superseded by the _Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities_ with thirty-four plates, photographic reproductions of the originals, 1900. On pages 104-13 will be found a most useful account of the class of tablet and short descriptions of ninety-four exhibited case tablets. Most of these tablets have been published by Strassmaier or in _Cuneiform Texts_, but are now indicated by their new registration numbers. It will be evident from the above remarks that only a small proportion of the material in our museums has yet been published. It is greatly to be desired that every existing tablet should be published, as in no other way can we hope to solve many important problems. Not only the chronology but much of the actual history can be recovered from these tablets, while the names of the witnesses and parties to the transactions will settle the order of the years which are still doubtful. It is from these deeds that the greater part of this work will be constructed. They form the groundwork, while later documents fill in details.