Professor Henry Arthur Talbot Tubbs, M.A., Oxon. (sometime Craven Fellow and Arnold Historical Prizeman, Classics), Professor of Classics at the Auckland University College, was born at Crumpsall, Lancashire, in 1865, and is the eldest surviving son of the late Mr. Henry Harmer Tubbs. Educated primarily at Silcoates, Wakefield, Yorkshire, and at the Manchester Grammar School, Professor Tubbs entered at Pembroke College, Oxford, in 1883, being elected to the first open scholarship of the year. He graduated B.A. in 1887 (First Class Honours Moderations, 1884; First Class Litteræ Humaniores, 1887), and eventually proceeded to the degree of M.A. In 1888 he was elected to the Craven Travelling Fellowship, and in the following year was awarded the Arnold Historical Prize of the University of Oxford. On the completion of his college course. Professor Tubbs was for two years engaged in archæological research, studying in Germany, Italy, and Greece, and was joint director of excavators in Cyprus, under the auspices of the Cyprus Exploration Fund and the British School at Athens. On his return to England he was appointed lecturer on classics at the Melbourne University, which position he held up to the time of his present appointment at Auckland University College.