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meetings of the Senate when either of the above 

 officers are present. The design, as well as the work- 

 manship, was carried out by Messrs. Omar Ramsden 

 and Alwyn Carr much to the satisfaction of the 

 Senate. 



The important subject of the extension of Uni- 

 versity teaching in London has been warmly taken up 

 by the University. It placed the whole subject under a 

 special department in charge of Dr. R. D. Roberts, and 

 absorbed the work which had hitherto been carried on 

 by the London Society. On supporting the motion 

 for this undertaking, I spoke of the important work 

 which lay before the University in the spread of the 

 taste for literature and science among the people of 

 London. 



Almost every day gives further proof of the deter- 

 mination of the University to be a centre of learning, 

 teaching, and research, worthy of the metropolis of 

 the Empire. The incorporation of University College, 

 which for many generations has worthily upheld the 

 flag of liberal educational progress in the metropolis, 

 as an integral part of the University is now an accom- 

 plished fact, thanks, among others, to the generous 

 co-operation of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, 

 which I had in the first instance the satisfaction of 

 suggesting. 



As a proof of the interest which the great City 

 Companies are taking in the higher education of 

 London, and which daily becomes more evident, I need 

 only mention the gift of the Goldsmiths' Company, of 

 the Library of Economics by Professor Foxwell to the 

 University, and, what is of still greater importance, the 

 handing over of their great Institute at New Cross to 

 the same Body. 



Even of greater importance, looking to the future, 



