Volume 1
Report of the royal commissioners appointed to inquire whether any and what kind of new university or powers is or are required for the advancement of higher education in London, together with an appendix.
- Great Britain. University for London Commission.
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the royal commissioners appointed to inquire whether any and what kind of new university or powers is or are required for the advancement of higher education in London, together with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![APPENDIX TO REPORT. Petitions and other Documents referred to the Commission. I.—PROPOSED NEW UNIVEESITY FOR LONDON. ]. University and King's Colleges, London—Petition. 2. Association for Promot- ing a Teaching University for London—Petition. 3. List of Members of the above-named Association. 4. University of London • ■ Letter from Resjistrar to C. L. Peel, Esq., C.B., Clerk to Her Majesty's Privy Council. 5. Royal College of Phy- sicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England—Address. 6. Royal College of Sur- geons of Edinburgh—Peti- tion. 7. University of Durham Colhye of Medicine—Peti- tion. a. Bishop Petition. of London- 9. Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow— Petition. 10. Royal College of Phy- sicians of Edinburgh—Peti- tion. 11. University of Edin- burgh—Memorial. J 2. Teachers of the West- minster Hospital Medical School and Member.s of the Staff of the Westminster Hospital—Statement. The colleges pray that Her Majesty will be pleased to grant a charter to a body of persons to be appointed iu the manner described in the petition, to be a University in and for the London district, having power to grant degrees in the Faculties of Arts, Science, and Medicine, with power to add other Faculties. F'or full copy of the Petition, see Api'ENDix to Minutes of Evidence, No. 6. The Association prays Her Majesty to grant a charter to a body of persons to be appointed in the manner described in the petition, or to such other persons as Her Majesty may select, constituting a University in and for London upon the principles and for the purposes therein stated, and having power to grant degrees in the Faculties of Arts, Science, Laws, and Medicine. For full copy of the Petition, see Appendix to Minutes of Evidence, No. 27. Sec for Copy and Analysis of the List Appendix to Minutes of Evidence, Nos. 4 and 28. Sent bv direction of the Senate of the University. Calls attention to the ])etition of University and King's Colleges and other matters, and states that the Senate believes that a serious injury would be done to higher education if those Colleges wore entirely separated from the University, and were to adapt their courses of teaching not to the examinations of that LTniversity, but to those of a new University in which the authorities of those Colleges would exercise a dominant influence. The Senate desired an opportunity of showing cause why the prayer of the Colleg''S should not be granted. See for full copy of the letter Appendix to Minutes of Evidence, No. 12. The Royal Colleges request permission to be heard by deputation oi- other- wise in the matter of the petitions above mentioned. States that Petitioners haviug learned that an application had been mad»^ for a Charter for a new University in which it was proposed that candidates for medical degrees should be required to possess diplomas of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and that thus there would be attached to the diplomas of those Colleges a privilege not belonging to those of the Scottish Medical Cor- porations, prayed that if such privilege should be conferred the same might be extended to the diplomas of the petitioners, the Royal College of Phy- sicians of Edinburgh and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, or that the Petitioners might be heard by Counsel with reference thereto. Prays that the charter sought by University and King's Colleges might not be granted. In support oi the petitions for the grant of a Charter for a Teaching Luiiversity for London. Similar to the petition of tlie Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (No. 6 snprn). Similar to the petition of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (No. 6 supra). While sympathising with the main purport of the Petition of University and King's Colleges and concurring in reasons urged, raising objections to certain provisions which would affect the interests of the petitioners, and praying to be heard iu support thereof Giving reasons in support of the petitions of University and King's' Col- leges, and of the Association for Promoting a T^eaching University in London, so far as they concern the Medical Faculty.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24749448_0001_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
