A TEACHING UNIVERSITY FOR LONDON. 1445 advised if in the first instance, when his health began similar platforms for obtaining degrees. But his Grace ncxC. to fail after his attack of influenza, he had taken a came to a more puzzling question-viz., the veto of Con- holiday such as would have been afforded by a long sea vocation on the granting of a new Charter. The deputation. voyage. The probability is that in such a way he might wished to urge that the two last votes in Convocation ha.c; have soon begun to recover his mental and bodily strength, decided its agreement to a new Charter, but he maintained. and that the power of obtaining natural sleep-" the innocent and quite rightly, that Convocation, unless its statutory right sleep," and not that hurtful variety obtained by the use of was taken away, had the power to approve of or veto any chloral-would have soon returned. Had this been the scheme proposed by the Statutory Commission. If the course adopted we should not have had any observations Lord President went further and was inclined to allow on his dazed and stupid condition when attending Mrs. proxy voting, as in the case of the election of a member FLETCHER. of Parliament, then he with Sir JOHN LUBBOCK is wrong It cannot be too clearly impressed on every practi- and is departing from the regulations of the University. tioner that if he attends a serious case when, for any Voting for or against a new Charter, as for the admission reason, he is more or less, through illness or otherwise, of women to degrees, has always been a personal vote, and unfit for active duty, his unfitness will be no excuse in no proxies have been admitted. A further statement will the event of anything going wrong, and there is the be laid before the Duke of DEVONSHIRE to show that the possibility that he may be held responsible for what rights of the existing graduates of the University 01 might have been an unavoidable occurrence, even if he London and the just privileges of "external" students had been mentally and physically at his best. We do will not be interfered with ; but we question whether this not say that this has been so in the present instance, will materially alter his Grace’s attitude with regard tc but it would be unfair not to admit the possibility that the question. At present it seems to us that the move. such might have been the case. ment has arrived at an ivapasse, but it must not bf: allowed to rest where it is. A university, capable o . granting degrees to London students on similar terms tc ON Thursday, Nov. 28th, at 12 noon, his Grace the Duke those on which they are conferred on Scotch and pro of DEVONSHIRE received a deputation of delegates from vincial students, must be established in London in the the various bodies interested in the establishing of a interests of general education and especially of the largs Teaching University for London. The deputation, intro- number of medical students in the metropolis. duced by Lord KELVIN, consisted of delegates from University, King’s, and Bedford Colleges, the medical schools, the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Surgeons of England and the Society of Apothecaries, the Annotations. theological colleges, the University of London, and some other bodies interested in the higher education of London. " Ne quid nimis." The following resolution was the important one that the PRESENTATION TO SIR HENRY ACLAND. deputation brought before the notice of the Lord President A REPRESENTATIVE the Warden o’ of the Privy Council, and many speeches, urging its company, including All Souls, the Rector of Exeter, the Warden of EeMe,, necessity from various standpoints, were made by members the Provost of Queen’s, the Principal of Hertford, Sit the of deputation : new Joseph Lister (the President of the Royal Society); ,r " That the Government be requested to introduce, at an and Professors Max Muller and Dicey assembled in. early date, a Bill, similar to Lord Playfair’s London Univer- the hall of All Souls’ College on Wednesday last :’0" sity Commission Bill, 1895, appointing a Statutory Com- present to Sir Henry Acland an address and a. mission to carry out the recommendations of Lord Cowper’s accompanying testimonial. The testimonial took the fcar:! Commission, but with an added clause giving [in accordance of a bust, which will be placed in the museum of the-. with precedent Acts of similar tenor] to all institutions or University, and a cheque for a large sum of money, oves persons directly affected by any statute or ordinance pro- .63000, which will be employed in carrying on the work ot’ posed by the Statutory Commission, a right of appeal to the the Sarah Acland Home for Nurses. The address justified Privy Council for the disallowance or alteration thereof, the testimonial, stating that it had been subscribed for in:: previous to such ordinance being laid before Parliament for commemoration of the long and faithful service that- confirmation."" Sir Henry Acland had rendered to the University, city, and. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE showed but little sympathy county of Oxford, and the part which he had borne ic . the advancement of medical science in more.. towards the object of the deputation, for he immediately England, particularly in the direction of sanitary reform and pre began to administer not merely the traditional cold douche, ventive medicine, during the forty years of his occupation . but even to put the recommendations of Lord COWPER’S Com- of the chair in the University of Regius Professor oi mission into a freezing mixture. He pointed out that there Medicine. The Provost of Queen’s (Vice-Chancellor of the" was a large number of candidates, non-collegiate students, University) in making the presentation took these words. as his text in who might be injuriously affected by the appointment of a and spoke eloquent expatiation of them, and all the will feel that it would not be to." Statutory Commission on the lines of Lord CowpBR’s Com- profession easy exaggerate the terms that could be employed about Sir _ mission. But surely this is a question of safeguards which Henry Acland in the above connexions. As scientific- a Commission Statutory is the proper body to settle. We physician, practical sanitarian, faithful administrator, and’ believe it to be a difficult but no means an insoluble by kindly man he stands so high in the estimation of us a.M’t problem to place collegiate and non-collegiate students on that no eulogy would seem extravagant.