By the exertions of the brothers J. S. and P. B. Duncan, Esqs., Fellows
of New College, distinguished for their efforts to promote the study of
the Arts and Sciences in the University, a subscription-fund was raised
for the purpose of adorning the Picture Gallery with plaster models of
some of the finest buildings of Greek and Roman antiquity. The result
was that in the present year the following series, by Fouquet, of Paris,
was placed in the Gallery, at a total cost of about £400:--The Arch of
Constantine, the Parthenon, the Temple of the Sybil at Tivoli, the
Maison Carrée at Nismes, the Erechtheum and Lantern of Demosthenes at
Athens, the Theatre of Herculaneum, and the Temple of Fortuna Virilis at
Rome.
A large number of works by foreign authors, chiefly theological, was
bought (for £375) at the sale at Leyden of the library of Jonas Wilh. Te
Water, professor of Eccl. Hist. in that University. A separate
catalogue, occupying twenty-three folio pages, was issued of these
books.
Mr. E. P. New, of St. John's College (B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825, B.D. 1831),
was appointed in December to assist in the compilation of the new
Catalogue; but how long he remained in the Library does not appear.