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read from the London Committee to the following effect:-

that Dr. Parker has resigned the Chair of Pathology and

that Dr. Wang has been appointed in his place and will

leave England on the 1st March."

9. It will appear from the above recital that the

late Professor C.Y. Wang was a pathologist and not a

gynaecologist and that he was a Professor in this

University from 1920 until his death in December last.

10. I am unable to give you the inner history

underlying the resolutions of the Council and Senate.

Dr. C.T. Wang refers to the University having

telegraphed to Edinburgh asking for a recommendation,

and to the University having replied, when Dr. C.Y.

Wang's name was put forward "that they did not wish to

have him because he was a Chinese." As I have already

pointed out, the Council is under the provisions of the

University Ordinance (see Statute 8.4) the only

University body empowered to appoint professors, lecturers and other academic officers of the University.

It is clear from the action which the Council did take

in the matter that that body could not possibly have

authorized any such reply as that which according to Dr. Wang Chung-hui was sent to Edinburgh. Paragraph 4 of Statute 8 of the University Ordinance which places

the right of appointment in the hands of the Council,

contains a proviso to the effect that no appointment

shall be made by the Council without due consideration

of the claims of any candidate who may be recommended

by the Senate. There is evidence that the Senate was

at the time a little inclined to go beyond its statutory

powers in the matter of appointments, but there is

nothing