ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. P. 7, par. 2. The first rooms occupied by the University were in Somerset House. P. 16, par. 1. Notwithstanding that the adoption of the new charter (1858) abolished the principle of affiliated Colleges, there continued to appear in the Calendar of the University, after the list of "Institutions from which the University receives certificates for degrees in Medicine," a list of "Institutions in connection with the University as to degrees in Arts and Laws". At a meeting of the Senate on 30th January, 1884, on the motion of Mr. Fitch, it was resolved to omit this second list from future editions of the Calendar. P. 17. In respect to the present (i.e., since 1900) position of the officials of the University it is not the same as was formerly the case. They are no longer members of the Civil Service, and can no longer look forward to a pension. Such pensions, however, as had accrued to them, under the previous arrangement up to the reconstruction of the University, is payable to them, provided they do not leave the service of the University before the age at which retirement is permitted by the rules of the Civil Service. P. 39. Three lines from bottom of page, for "College" read "Colleges". The precise words of Mr. Hickman's resolution were: "That the Council of the College [i.e. the Royal College of Surgeons] do obtain a charter to enable the Council to combine with the Royal College of Physicians of London, with the view to amalgamation of the two Colleges into one great College of Medicine, to be endowed with authority to examine and grant licences to practise in all branches of Medicine and Surgery, and to confer on its licentiates the degrees and titles of Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery". The Council of the College of Surgeons took no steps to give effect to this resolution. P. 44, line 15. After the word "report" insert "which had been adopted by the Council of the Branch on 5th February". P. 71, par. 2. Referring to the communications proposed to be entered on between the Association for Promoting a Teaching University for London and the Senate of the University the present writer published a letter in the Lancet for 28th March, 1885, pointing out how difficult he conceived it would be for the University profitably to entertain the proposals of the Association, or those of the Metropolitan Branch of the British Medical Association, and suggesting, he believes for the first time, the reference of the whole question to a Royal Commission. P. 71, last par. For an account of this meeting, which was held at Exeter Hall, see Lancet and British Medical Journal, 5th December, 1885. P. 75, line 9. P. 75, par. 2. P. 91, line 19. After "10th July" insert "1886". Refer to footnote, p. 177. For "Senatus" read "the Senate ". P. 116, 6 lines from bottom of page. For "693 " read “85". THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. I. 1825-1888. FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY TO THE FIRST ROYAL COMMISSION. "THE statutes made for the University of London by the Commissioners appointed under the University of London Act, 1898," were published in the London Gazette on 16th February, 1900, and laid on the table of the Houses of Parliament the same day. Objection to them in either House must be raised within forty days after being laid before it, and in the form of "an address praying the Queen to withhold her assent". No such objection has been taken, but “the Senate or Convocation of the University of London or any other person or body directly affected by any such statute or regulation, may, within three months after the notification thereof, in the London Gazette, petition Her Majesty in Council to withhold her approval of the whole on any part thereof. Her Majesty in Council may refer any such petition to a Committee of the Privy Council with a direction that the Committee hear the petitioner personally or by counsel, and report specially to Her Majesty in Council on the matter of the petition." This course, though not free from difficulty or expense, is yet open to objectors, and it is possible, though not probable, that some of the whispers of opposition now heard may find expression in this direction. Otherwise the statutes and the annexed regulations will come into force on * * University of London Act, Clause 5. |