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He lias also given an introductory sketch of the Met a physic a, together with 

 a full abstract of the greater part of it. Of the physical treatises which 

 lie coupled with the Metaphysica, he has given an analysis of De Ccelo. He 

 had previously published a careful account of the peculiarly difficult and 

 important treatise De Anima. 



Mr. Grote was one of the original founders of the London University, 

 afterwards called University College, and was an active member of Council 

 from the commencement, in 1827, up to the year 1831. He entered with 

 zeal into the scheme, as proposing to impart an education that should be 

 at once extensive and unsectarian. He again joined the Council in 1849, 

 and from that time till his death took a leading part in the administration 

 of the College. In 1800 he became Treasurer; and on the death of 

 Lord Brougham, in 1868, he was elected President. He has bequeathed to 

 the College six thousand pounds, the interest of which is to be paid to the 

 Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic for the time being, on the con- 

 ditions that his teaching is satisfactory, and that he is not a minister of 

 religion. 



His was one of seven names added by the Crown, on the 19th of March, 

 1850, to the Senate of the University of London, the others being Lords 

 Monteagle and Overstone, Sir James Graham, Thomas B. Macaulay, Sir 

 George Cornewall Lewis, and Henry Hallam. From the date of his ap- 

 pointment he gave unremitting attention to the business of the Senate, enter- 

 ing into every question that arose, and taking a lead in the most critical 

 decisions of the University during the twenty- one years of his connexion 

 with it. The first subject of great importance that came up after Mr. 

 Grote' s appointment was the admission of the Graduates to a position in the 

 government of the University. On the 26th of February, 1850, there was 

 laid before the Senate a declaration and statement, signed by 361 Gra- 

 duates, desiring that the Graduates might be admitted into the corporate 

 body. This was the commencement of a protracted agitation and struggle, 

 terminated, in 1858, by the issue of a new Charter, which conceded what 

 had been so long fought for. Mr. Grote cordially supported the claims 

 of the Graduates. His aid in this cause was warmly acknowledged in a 

 resolution of the Annual Committee of Convocation passed shortly after 

 his death. 



On the 1st of February, 1854, a memorial was presented to the Senate, 

 signed by eleven persons (including Sir Rowland Hill and his three 

 brothers, and Mr. William Ellis), in favour of throwing open the degrees 

 of the University to all classes, irrespective of the manner or place of 

 their education. On the 5th of April was presented another petition to the 

 same effect, more numerously signed. No notice appears to have been 

 taken of these applications. On the 19th of November, 1856, the Senate 

 admitted the London Working Men's College among the affiliated col- 

 leges of the University. Mr. Grote opposed this step, on the ground 

 that so long as the University required attendance on classes, a line should 



