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 396 OX A KEMARKABLE OBJECT OF 1635. West side of St, Edmund Hall built. 1635. June 19. Front of University College commenced. 1637. Oriel College quadrangle and haU built. 1639. Cbapel of University commenced ; finished in 1665. 1639—40. St. Mary Hall Chapel and Hall built. 1640. Hall of University College commenced. Finished in 1657. 1642. June or July. Oriel College Chapel consecrated. 1656. June 26. Chapel of Brazenose College, first stone laid ; finished in 1666. 1663. Library of Brazenose College opened. 1665. March'30. Chapel of University College consecrated. 1666. Nov. 17. Chapel of Brazenose College consecrated. 1669. Library of University College opened. OX A EE1LA.EKABLE OBJECT OF THE EEIGN OF AMENOPHIS III. PRESENTED TO THE EGYPTIAN COLLECTION" IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY THE LATE MARQUIS OF NORTHAMPTON. The following observations are intended to illustrate two objects obtained bj the late lamented President of the Institute, during his tour in Egypt in 1849. Independently of the historical or antiquarian importance of these curious relics, the following notices will be received with more than ordinary interest, as a tribute of respect to the memor}'' of that lamented nobleman, and a memorial of one of the last acts of his wonted liberality in the furtherance of science. The first is a thin shce, or veneer of ebony, 20 inches long, one inch wide, and about one-tenth of an inch thick. On it is incised, at the upper end, a mortaise, f in. I., ^ in. w., into which was inserted the tenon of the second, a stud of the usual mushroom shape, also of ebony, on which are also engraved two cartouches. On both these the hieroglyphs had been inlaid in white colour. They formed part of a box, and an example of how they were arranged on the cover is illustrated by No. 5907 in the British Museum, where the hieroglyphs, although only painted, are disposed in the same manner. When the historical value of these two objects, and the light which they thi'ow upon a most difficult point of the history of the eighteenth dynasty, was