“After much discussion, the Senate and Convocation agreed to accept from the Crown, in 1878, a Supplemental Charter, making every degree, honour, and prize awarded by the University accessible to students of both sexes on perfectly equal terms. The University of London was thus the first academical body in the United Kingdom to admit women as candidates for degrees. The record of the results which have followed this measure will be found in the statistical tables and in the honours and distinctions which have since been won by female candidates.” On the point of granting degrees, on the same terms for women as for men, Miss Buss was always most decided. She endeavoured to carry the Head-mistresses’ Association with her in presenting a memorial to the University authorities, but in this she failed, as is shown in the following letter to Miss Davies— “Myra Lodge, July 24, 1877. “MY DEAR MISS DAVIES, “It was so impossible to agree at our committee yesterday that we gave up the idea of sending a memorial from the Head-mistresses’ Association. “At the committee, only five would vote for the degree on absolutely equal terms, and eight were against it. Of the absent members five wrote against it, so there would have been a large _majority against_. “Each mistress can sign the memorial she prefers. So, I suppose, ‘we,’ that is, my colleagues and I, had better sign your memorial. “I heard, for the first time, that men from the affiliated colleges—Nottingham, for example—could get a degree without the Little-Go, and with only two years’ residence. This, if correct, does modify things a little. I heard, also, that Dr. Sidgwick would vote for the degree being given on the same terms as now, _i.e._ I suppose, on Girton and Newnham lines. “Yours always truly, “FRANCES M. BUSS. “My young people were delighted with their visit to Girton.” In a letter to Dr. Fitch, dated July 24, 1879, Miss Buss thus expresses her satisfaction with the success of the efforts in this direction— “DEAR MR. FITCH, “Many thanks for your kind note, which gave me great pleasure. I am glad to know that our friends are satisfied with the result of their exertions on our behalf so far. “The fight was hard. I wonder how the women will do in the B.A. and B.Sc. Examinations. “Cheltenham has done as well as usual. Nine candidates out of ten passed in this last matriculation examination. “_We_ are exceptionally fortunate this year, but our success is largely owing to my accomplished and brilliant young fellow-worker, Mrs. Bryant, who is as good and charming as she is clever. “I thank you most heartily for your congratulations, dear Mr. Fitch.