Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund : April. (38
Conduit Street, W. 2s. 6d.)—The Gazer excavations in tho lad season have been unsatisfactory, very little having been found, while the work was greatly hindered by bed weather. ' T hare is, howover, an interesting discussion on the so-called calendar discovered some little time ago. Mr. J. E. Hananor sends some
"Notes from Damascus and the Anti-Libanus " which are good • reading. Here is a curious legend. The Emperor Justinian when .hunting near Damascus saw a snow-white gazelle with golden
horns. He followed it to the spot where the church of Saidnaya now stands. Then it changed into tho shape of the Virgin, who commanded the Emperor to build the church to her honour. Is this a reminiscence of Arteinis worship P Mr. J. Mn.calister con- tinuos from the "Statement" of April last his account of .the travels of the German botanist Rauwolff (1573). A table of meteorological observations mado at Jerusalem for 1908 gives a maximum tomperaturo of 82.9, a minimum of 40.0, a rainfall of 31.870 inches, a little more than half falling in January and December, while May-October wero absolutely dry. The wind was N.W., W., or S.W. for two hundred and forty-two days.
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