SIR,-In the Notes and News of the July number, you refer to Sir Leonard Woolley's book on Dr, and state that the identifi- cation of Hammurabi with Amraphel, is no longer universally accepted. So far as I am aware, it never has been so accepted. But "the Venus Tablets of Ammizaduga" by Langdon and Fotheringham, published in 1928, make it reasonably certain. This excellent piece of scholarship supplies an astronomical date for the reign of Hammurabi from B.C. 2067 to 2025. Those of your readers who care to add the Genesis dates back to .f\braham, on the basis of the Jericho da.te of B.C. 1400, will find that the patriarch was born in B.C. 2160, and entered Canaan in B.C. 2085. So l\braham's life in Canaan coincid('s with the reign of Hammurabi. Those who do not want to look up the (;encsis dates for the Patriarchs, will find the calculations set down in nlV book, The Btble is '{rue. ., The coincidence of the agrecll1cnt of the ]~ible date for Abraham with the astronolllical date for I-Ianltllilrabi seerllS t ()() remarkable to be ignored.--- Yours "cry truly. CUAHl.ES l\fAHSTON. DEAR SIR,-I am much interested to hear of thc possi- bility of another expedition to Lake Huleh. No doubt like tlte Percy Sladen l£xpcdition which has recently done sneh in- teresting work there, it will includc a botanist and a hi()I()~ist I and I hear that pleas are beinJ.{ put in for an ()1 nith()lo~ist. :\la~' I put in a plea...