HC Deb 18 March 1910 vol 15 cc736-7W
Sir WILLIAM COLLINS

asked the Under-Secretary for India if he will state the terms of reference and the personnel of the new Committee which has been appointed to carry into effect the recommendations of Lord Reay's Committee that a school of Oriental studies should be established in London and incorporated in the University of London?

Mr. MONTAGU:

The terms of reference are as follows:—"To formulate in detail an organised scheme for the institution in London of a School of Oriental Languages upon the lines recommended in the Report of Lord Reay's Committee of 1909." The Committee, as I stated in reply to the hon. Member for West Staffordshire on the 7th instant, will consist of the Earl of Cromer, Lord Curzon, the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Hardinge, Sir Charles Lyall, and Dr. Frank Heath.