1 FEBRUARY 1913, Page 13

[To THE EDITOR or THR "SPECTATOR. "]

SIR,—The Bishop of Bristol, in a letter to you upon the number of honorary degrees recently conferred at the inauguration of the Chancellor of Bristol University, defended the total of sixty-three on the ground that when I was inaugurated Chancellor of Oxford University sixty-one honorary degrees were conferred. I have nothing to do with the comparison; but I think I ought to correct the statement of fact. The number of degrees conferred by me on the occasion referred to was not sixty-one but thirty-four.-1 am, Sir, &c., CITRZON OF KEDLESTON. 1 Carlton House Terrace, S.W.