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AT the annual meeting of the proprietors of the London Institution, held on April 28, it was announced that, in view of the appointment of the Royal Commission on University Education in London, which had officially informed the Institution that they regarded it as coming under their purview, the scheme for amalgamation with the Royal Society of Arts must remain in abeyance. The solicitor of the institution had advised that Parliament would not pass a Bill altering the status of an institution the position of which was already under the consideration of a Royal Commission, and, assuming that opinion to be sound, as it probably is, it would certainly be inexpedient immediately to proceed with the Royal Society of Arts scheme, or any other that involved an Act of Parliament. A considerable opposition to the ratification of the scheme had been worked up, and an attempt was to be made to alter the constitution of the board, but upon the announcement that the scheme was not to be proceeded with at present, the opposition to the existing board was withdrawn. Whether the scheme which has now been shelved, at any rate for the present session, will be revived after the Royal Commission on University Education in London has reported is very doubtful.
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The London Institution . Nature 80, 283 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080283a0
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