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A University Board is to encourage University extension, and if 

 it be satisfied that any portion of its work is of equal educational value, 

 is to accept it as a portion of the University course. 



University College, King's College, the Royal College of Science, 

 the Medical Schools of the Great Hospitals, the London School of 

 Medicine for Women, the City and Guilds of London Institute, 

 .and Bedford College are to be among the Schools of the University, 

 and their teachers, when individually approved by the University, are 

 to be members of its faculties. 



Great additional facilities for research are to be provided, and 

 these, though not definitely associated with the teaching institutions, 

 are to be open to all teachers of the University. 



A senate consisting of a Chancellor and sixty-five other members, 

 ■of which eighteen will be elected by the faculties, is to be the supreme 

 governing body of the University. Then in order of authority follow an 

 academic council elected by the faculties ; the faculties, consisting of 

 teachers appointed by, or recognised by, the Universities; the boards of 

 studies; and convocation. 



The Commission finally recommend that a statutory commission 

 be appointed with power (subject to the approval of Parliament) 

 .to carry out and give conclusive authority to the recommendations of 

 .the report. 



We must welcome this report as a solid, fair, and practicable 

 .attempt to evolve out of the chaos of London institutions an University 

 worthy of the metropolis. 



The New Biological Syllabus of the Conjoint Board. 



The medical schools of London form one of the most important 

 •sets of institutions affected by the Gresham University. For some 

 time, biological teaching at them was in abeyance, save at those 

 large enough to have a fair annual number of students going up for a 

 London degree. Three years ago, the Conjoint Board of the Royal 

 Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, the Board which gives their 

 qualification to the largest number of medical students in England, 

 wisely instituted an elementary course of Biology, as part of the 

 necessary curriculum. The first schedule was cumbrous and peculiar. 

 It included elementary botany, the differences between plants and 

 animals, a number of types of parasitic worms, the characters of the 

 •vertebrates, the difference between Man and the Mammalia generally. 

 The syllabus was neither educational, easy to teach, nor harmonious 

 with the existing courses of biology. A revised syllabus of a much 

 better kind has been issued recently. The theoretical work is 

 .associated with a definite series of types, which serve to illustrate the 

 main features of ascending grades of structure. It can be taught 

 along with the course for the London " preliminary scientific," 

 although in certain respects the London syllabus is more advanced. 



But a great deal has to be done to prevent waste of energy in the 



