The London University Election

Abstract

SINCE the appearance of last week's NATURE, the course which we ventured to foreshadow in reference to the impending election has fortunately been found practicable. It was announced on the 17th inst. that a committee of graduates unconnected with either of the two party organisations had invited Sir Michael Foster, K.C.B., to contest the seat, and that he had consented to be put in nomination. This fact ought to reassure all those graduates who desired to see the University do itself honour by selecting a fitting successor to Sir John Lubbock. And a passage in Dr. Benson's letter to the Times led to a general belief that at least one of the candidates now before the constituency would be willing to retire before a man of really distinguished position and qualifications. Unfortunately, however, it appears that up to the present time neither of them has evinced any readiness to withdraw his personal pretensions.