236 LIFE OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY cHAP. IX 



desirous of getting their degree granted on the mere 

 license examination of the Royal Colleges, without 

 any evidence of general culture or academical training, 

 and on July 28 Huxley writes : — 



The decision of the representatives of the Medical 

 Schools is just such as I should have expected. I always 

 told my colleagues in the Senate of the University of 

 London that such was their view, and that, in the words 

 of Pears' advertisement, they " would not be happy till 

 they got it." 



And they won't get it unless the medical examining 

 bodies are connected into a distinct degree-giving body. 



In the course of the autumn matters seemed to be 

 progressing. He writes to Sir M. Foster, November 

 9:— 



I am delighted to say that Paget ^ has taken up the 

 game, and I am going to a committee of the University 

 this day week to try my powers of persuasion. If the 

 Senate can only be got to see where salvation lies and 

 strike hard witliout any fooling over details, we shaU 

 do a great stroke of business for the future generations of 

 Londoners. 



And by the end of the year he writes : — 



I think we are going to get something done, as the 

 Senate of the U.L. has come into line with us, and I 

 hope University College will do the same. 



Meanwhile he was asked if he would appear before 



the Commission and give evidence — to " talk without 



interrogation " so as to convince the Commission of 



the inadequacy of the teaching of science in general 



» Sir James Paget, Vice-Chancellor of the University. 



