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gerd TO ieee, 
19. The institutions from which the University receives certifi- 
cates for degrees in Medicine (hereinafter called the recognised 
Medical Institutions) to retain their right of giving such certificates 
whether they be or be not constituent colleges. 
20. The list of recognised medical institutions to be subject to 
the existing power of revision, but so that the Senate shall not 
report thereon without the previous advice of the Faculty’ of 
Medicine (see Charter of January 6, 1863, section 37). 
IV.—FACULTIES 
21. There shall be four faculties—viz. (1) Arts; (2) Laws; 
(3) Science ; (4) Medicine. 
22. All departments of knowledge in which examinations may 
be held by the University, and not included in any of the other 
faculties, shall be included in the Faculty of Arts. 
23. Each faculty shall consist of—(a) the representatives of the 
constituent colleges ; (4) the examiners in the faculty during their 
periods of office and three years afterwards; (c) such persons 
eminent in the studies with which the faculty is concerned not 
exceeding six in number as the faculty may elect and for such 
periods as they may determine. 
24. Each faculty shall elect—(a) a chairman for three years ; 
(2) three members of the Senate ; (c) members of a board of 
studies. 
25. The persons to be elected under the last clause must be 
members of the faculty not being examiners in office, and on 
ceasing to be members of the faculty or accepting the office of 
examiner such persons will vacate their seats as chairman or 
member of the Senate or board. 
26. On any matter connected with its subjects a faculty may— 
(a) make recommendations to its board of studies in all matters 
within the competence of the board; (4) represent its views to 
the Senate. 
V.—BoarDs OF STUDIES 
27. There shall be a board of studies in each faculty. 
28. Each board shall consist of such a number of members 
being a multiple of three, and not less than six nor more than 
twenty-one, as the faculty shall from time to time determine, 
together with one member of Convocation to be elected by 
Convocation. 
29. One-third of the faculty members shall retire each year. 
30. The member elected by Convocation shall sit for three 
years. 
31. Power to fill up occasional vacancies. 
32. Power to re-elect. 
33. Each board shall elect a chairman every year. 
34. Each board of studies shall have the following powers and 
duties :—(a) To consider the recommendations of its faculty ; 
(4) to consult together on all matters connected with the subjects 
of its faculty and the examinations therein and the teaching 
thereof ; (c) to advise the Senate from time to time as to the in- 
stitution of new degrees or any change in the degrees, or as to 
the regulations in force with regard to the degrees and examina- 
tions inits faculty (without which advice the Senate shall not act 
in the said several matters) ; (¢) to consult with and advise the 
examiners in the faculty ; (e) to represent its views on any matter 
connected with the subjects of its faculty to the Senate ; (f) to 
make by way of report to its faculty such recommendations as it 
may think fit, with the object of insuring suitable and efficiept 
teaching in the subjects of its faculty, and generally to report to 
its faculty on all matters connected with its subjects as the board 
may think desirable ; (g) to summona meeting of its faculty for 
the discussion of any matter relating to its subjects. 
35- Boards of studies may, if they or any of them shall from 
time to time think it desirable, meet and act concurrently on 
particular subjects. 
VI.—EXAMINERS 
36. The examiners in each faculty may from time to time 
make such reports and recommendations to the faculty or its 
board of studies as they may think fit. 
VII. --DEGREES 
37. Candidates to be admitted to matriculation and all degrees 
other than degrees in the Medical Faculty without regard to the 
place of their education. 
38. Candidates for degrees in the Faculty of Medicine to show 
that they have passed the required course of instruction in a con- 
stituent college in the Medical Faculty orin recognised medical 
institution, 
[Fuly 16, 1885 
VIII.—GENERAL PROVISION 
_39. Except so far as altered by the foregoing provisions either 
directly or indirectly, the existing constitution of the University 
to be retained. 
DANISH RESEARCHES IN GREENLAND 
TZ URING the last few years the Danish Government have 
despatched several scientific expeditions to her great but 
Sparsely populated dependency, Greenland, for the purpose of 
exploring it geographically, zoologically, botanically, and mine- 
ralogically, while efforts have also been made to learn something 
of the Norse archzological remains in South Greenland. Glacial 
researches, too, have been prosecuted and valuable observations 
made of the enormous ice-field—the inland ice, which fills the 
entire interior—and of its movements to the sea through the 
numerous fjords, the birth-place of the greatest icebergs in the 
northern hemisphere. 
The results of these varied researches have only been published 
after a long delay. It should, however, be stated that the 
Danish Government have followed a carefully prepared plan on 
this point, as the Royal Commission appointed for the purpose 
of supervising the same, consisting of Prof. Johnstrup, Admiral 
Rayn, and Dr. Rink, have decided that the results of the 
researches should not be made public until their analysis was 
completed in every detail. These have been embodied in the 
work published by the Commission: ‘‘ Videnskablige Med- 
delelser om Gronland” (Scientific Informations about Green- 
land), a publication which has gained one of the gold medals of 
the French Academy, and of which six or seven volumes have 
been published. In addition to this work we have received 
another, equally great, containing 109 tables, with facsimiles in 
colour of fossil plants found in North Greenland, defined and 
described by the late Prof. Oswald Heer, of Zurich, who also 
defined the fossils which Mr. E. Whymper, in 1867, brought 
home from the Disco Island and the peninsula of Noursoak, an 
account of which was published in the Z>avsactions of the 
Royal Society, 1869, pp. 445-488, with eighteen lithographed 
lates. 
. Last year no less than three Danish expeditions were at work 
along the Greenland shores. 
The first of these, under Lieut. A. Jenssen, known for his 
wanderings on the inland ice—was engaged in exploring and 
charting the district on the west coast, between Sukkertoppen 
and Holsteinborg (6543°—67° N. lat.), where there is a network 
of little unexplored fjords, between mountains rising from 6009 
to 7000 feet in height, penetrating upwards of 100 miles into the 
broad coast-land. 
The results of this expedition were very important, as the 
flora, fauna, and geology of this part of Greenland were ascer- 
tained. Several new plants were brought home, and the flora 
on a “nunatak,” viz. a mountain rising above the inland ice, 
was collected, Lieut. Jensen is still occupied in finally drawing 
and describing the explored part of the coast, embracing about 
1000 square miles. 
The second expedition, under Lieut. J. Holm, is, in its second 
year, engaged in penetrating from Cape Farewell, along the 
barren and difficult east coast, always encircled by pack-ice. It 
comprises four scientists, and has for its object the exploration of 
the country between the 63° and 7o” lat. N., where the forma- 
tion of the land is much like that of Iceland. 
Besides having to explore the east coast as far north as cir- 
cumstances may permit, two of the members, viz. Lieut. Garde 
and Dr. Eberlin, have established a station at Nanortalik (lat. 
60° N.), where they have, last winter, prosecuted meteorological, 
| magnetical, and auroral observations, being a continuation of 
those effected during 1882-83 at Godthaab. Observations of ice 
and sea are also made. The two scientists who have wintered 
in some spot on the east coast, started, according to latest 
advice, from “Fluidlek (lat 614° N.), where a depot has been 
established, at the end of July last year, northwards, in the 
company of Greenlanders, eighty-two of whom lived on the east 
coast, and were on their way home from trading on the south 
coast. There were thirty-six boats in all. Late in July the 
great glacier Puisortok, which reaches down to the sea, and 
which in 1830 caused Graah, the only European who had 
hitherto visited it, so much trouble—was passed without much 
difficulty. Soon after Tingmiarmint (lat. 62° 40’ N.) was 
reached, the northernmost place whence we have news of the 
party. It was their intention to attempt to reach a place, 
