§ DR. FARQUHARSON (Aberdeenshire, W.)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education, Whether the Petition of 10,000 members of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, for a modification of the Charters of the College now under consideration by the Council, has received the favourable consideration of the Lord President, or whether it will be referred to the Royal Commission on University Education in London, recently appointed to consider, among other things, the means of facilitating University degrees for resident students in London; and, whether the Royal College of Surgeons of England has yet presented to the Lord President any comments on, or reply to, the representations made on behalf of the members of the College by the deputation which recently waited on him; or whether, in the absence of any reply, such representation in support of the Petition by 6,000 members will be held to be conclusive?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir WILLIAM HART DYKE) (Kent, Dartford)The Petition of the members of the Royal College of Surgeons has received the consideration of the Lords of the Council, and will not be referred to the Royal Commission recently appointed to consider the means of facilitating University degrees for resident students in London. There has been a correspondence between the Council Office and the Royal College of Surgeons on the subject of their Petition for a supplementary Charter; and the College have accepted a proposal from the Privy Council to omit from the supplementary Charter points upon which there has 307 been a controversy with the Fellows and the members of the College.