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demic membership of Council also depends

on establishment of Faculties.

Even if Simpson

could be appointed to officiate as Vice-Chancellor,

Buch BIRCH and Burt were appointed to officiate as Professor of English, quorum of Senate would still be incomplete. The appointment of Wilkinson and Gray as officiating Professors of Medicine and Surgery would complete quorum, but it would probably commit the University to them as permanent appointments, and I regard that step as undesirable at this stage both because there would be no general notification of the vacancies, and because it might be felt that they had been appointed for reasons of convenience rather than merit.

5. Letter follows by air from Colonial Office, giving grounds for deferring appointments to Council and Court,

on there Cinel and suggesting interim arrangements for conduet of

higher-education. Ends.

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