1 MAY 1920, Page 3

Lord Rosebery, as Chancellor of the University of London, and

the Lord Mayor send us an appeal for £20,000 to establish a Centre for Historical Research in London. The proposal has long been advocated by Professor Pollard, of University College, who has trained his own students to use the unequalled facilities for research that are afforded by the Record Office, the British Museum Manuscript Room, and other great London archives. The University needs an institution, similar to the Boole des Chartes in Paris, where students from the Dominions and America may find guidance and assistance in their hietorical work in London. The sum required is relatively small, for historians are modest and thrifty people, and even in these hard times it ought to be found readily for so excellent an object.