Calendar: 1962-1963 Page 405

xvi ANNUAL REPORT at the College and at the University and it is confidently hoped that theological studies will assume their rightful place in the University which lack of manpower and poverty of resources have hitherto denied to them The appointment of Professor Jenkins to the University of Harvard last year gave the College and the University of London the opportunity to reconsider the anomalous constitution of the Koraes professorship from which he resigned Representations have been made to the authorities concerned that it should be reconstituted on the same basis as other professorships Permission was granted during the summer vacation 1961 and the College will shortly be proposing to fill the Koraes Chair which has been vacant during the present session The question of the College site is still very live issue and we continue to await the result of the Public Enquiry held on October 20th 1960 at which objections to the proposed development of the quadri- lateral site were heard and Professor Bondi gave evidence on behalf of the College The enquiry has been very protracted one but it is hoped that the Minister of Town and Country Planning will give his decision before the end of 1961 and so clarify the position of the College once and for all In the meantime the architects with the assistance of the College Planning Committee have been assiduously preparing draw- ings and plans for presentation to the Royal Fine Art Commission and the London County Council with view to commencing the rebuilding of the College in the course of 1963 or at latest 1964 At the same time much effort has been applied to solving the accom- modation problems of the biological departments especially Botany and Zoology Some houses and land adjacent to the present Botany department in Half Moon Lane have been acquired and considerable scheme of development has now been agreed with the authorities The first section of this at an estimated cost of £160 000 has been sanctioned by the University Court and given starting date early in 1962 The second and larger part of the development which will ultimately provide adequate accommodation for range of biological studies will it is hoped be commenced in 1964 THE LIBRARY notable step has been taken by the Library Committee in complet- ing its reconsideration of the ultimate shape of the College Library the rehousing of which once more becomes practical possibility within the framework of the reconstruction of the College It is considered that provision should be made for Library of half million volumes of which at least three-fifths should be on open shelves with 800 seats for readers one place for every three students The major part of the Library catering mainly for the humanities in series of separate read- ing rooms one for each subject will be contained in building on the Strand frontage in which the teaching departments in Arts and Laws