Faraday to Richard Wellesley Rothman   7 December 18481

Royal Institution, | 7 Dec. 1848.

My Dear Sir, - I am sorry I shall be out of town until the 22nd instant for necessary rest and refreshment, otherwise I intended to propose for consideration the following form of resolution:

That an Examiner has no power to appoint a deputy (either with or without reference to the Senate) in the manner implied in Dr. Bialloblotzky's 2 letter to the Registrar 3.

I say either with or without reference to the Senate, because if he had written the same letter to the Senate which he has written to you, it would not have been sufficient; for he asks for no assent either on your part or the part of the Senate.

The Senate are sure to deal rightly with the matter.

Ever truly yours, | M. Faraday.

Dr. Rothman, | &c. &c. &c.

1
Richard Wellesley Rothman (d.1856, age 56, GRO, B3). Registrar of University of London, 1838-1856.
2
Christoph Heinrich Friedrich Bialloblotzky (1799-1869, P3). Teacher of German in England.
3
Bialloblotzky to Rothman, 3 October 1848, in printed Minutes of the University of London Senate,15 November 1848 in which Bialloblotzky, writing from Vienna, nominated a replacement to undertake his duties as the examiner for German Language in the University. The Senate agreed to declare the post of German Language examiner vacant.

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