_March_ 6_th_, 1917.

DEAR SIR,--I have received your letter of the 3rd of March informing
me that it is not customary for the Vice-Chancellor to read to
Convocation the letters of professors who resign or to print such
letters in the University Gazette, but I do not understand from you
that the Vice-Chancellor is precluded by any rule of Convocation from
reading such a letter, or that the editor if there be one of the
University Gazette is unable by any rule of his office to admit such
a letter to his columns--and I therefore feel that I was quite
entitled to make the comments I did in _The Animals' Defender and
Zoophilist_. When such a man as Ruskin desired the reasons for his
resignation to be made clear, I take leave to think that the breach
of a custom that enabled the University to conceal those reasons and
even permit misapprehensions of those reasons to be given a wide
publicity, would have been better than its observance. And a
University Gazette that refuses to publish the letter of a
world-famous professor of that University, must arrogate to itself a
title to which it can justly make no claim.

Very truly yours,
STEPHEN COLERIDGE.

THE VERY REV. THE DEAN OF CHRIST CHURCH, VICE-CHANCELLOR, OXFORD.

At this distance of time it is probable that the present Dean of Christ
Church may not fully realise the sort of person Professor Sanderson, whom
the University preferred to Ruskin, was: I therefore think he may like to
see a letter I wrote at the time to the papers which has fortunately been
preserved:

SIR,--I hope you will find room for an answer to the remarkable
letter of Professor Acland in your issue of the 9th, and to
"F.R.S.'s" attack on Miss Cobbe in that of the 10th of March.

Professor Acland says:--

"I have to say to English parents that everyone at home and abroad,
who knows anything of biological science in England, will think them
fortunate if their children being students of medicine, fall under
the elevating influence of Professor Sanderson's scientific and
personal character."

And "F.R.S." says:--

"I was a very constant attendant at Dr. Sanderson's private
laboratory during the last ten years of his professorship at