The Council have considered the remarks made at the Discussion of this Report and have referred them to the General Board who have commented as follows.
The Board have noted that all of the three speakers expressed support for the merger, but that Dr D. J. Chivers expressed some misgivings about the name of the new Department in relation to the distinguished history of the Department of Anatomy in the teaching of pre-clinical medical students. The Board emphasize that the teaching of pre-clinical students in functional anatomy will continue in the merged Department and they would draw particular attention to Professor G. J. Burton's remarks in that respect. The importance of such teaching is fully recognized as an essential requirement of the training of future doctors and veterinarians. The Board recognize the difficulty, when merging two Departments with a long history and tradition, of achieving unanimity over a choice of name. They consider however that there has been full and open discussion of this matter and they share the view of the Council of the School of the Biological Sciences that Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience is a suitable name for the new Department. The Board do not consider this issue to be so substantive as to hold up an academically desirable development which has been the subject of extensive consultation within the two Departments and the School of the Biological Sciences more generally for over two years. They have accordingly asked the Council to put forward the Grace for the approval of the Report's recommendations.
The Council have agreed to submit a Grace (Grace 9, p. 206) to the Regent House for the approval of the recommendations in the Report.
The opportunity has been taken to correct an error in the title of one of the Readerships mentioned in Recommendation II: the Readership in Cell Biophysics should read Cell Physiology.