126 [October, 1844. 



A letter from Dr. Richard Lepsius, head of the Prussian 

 Scientific Commission in Egypt, was read at the meeting of 

 the 23d of July last, but accidentally omitted in the last number 

 of the Proceedings. It is addressed to Mr. Gliddon,and dated at 

 Khartoon, (junction of the White and Blue Nile,) March 29, 

 1844. After returning thanks for his election as a Corres- 

 ponding member of this Society, he concludes his letter with 

 the following highly interesting announcement : 



" The most important result of my visit to the Pyramids 

 of Begerawe, and the temples at Ben Naga, Naga and the 

 Wadee e'-Sofra, is, that all these monuments ascend, as an 

 extreme, as far as the times of the Ptolemies ; and date, for 

 the most part, about the first centuries of our era. I hasten 

 to examine the Ethiopian monuments of Mount. Berkal, 

 which date at least as far back as the seventh century before 

 Christ.' , 



