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A LIST of 5604 promotions in and appointments to the Civil Division of the Order of the British Empire “for services in connection with the war” was published on March 30 as a supplement to the London Gazette. We notice the following names of men of science and other workers known in scientific circles:—Knight Grand Cross (G.B.E.): Dr. A. E. Shipley, F.R.S., Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University. Knights Commanders (K.B.E.): Prof. I. Bayley Balfour, F.R.S., University of Edinburgh; Prof. W. H. Bragg, F.R.S., University College, London; Dr. S. F. Harmer, F.R.S., Director of Natural History Departments, and Keeper of Zoology, British Museum; and Dr. J. E. Petavel, F.R.S., Director of the National Physical Laboratory. Commanders (C.B.E.): Prof. H. L. Callendar, F.R.S., Imperial College of Science, London; Dr. C. C. Carpenter, chairman, South Metropolitan Gas Co.; Mr. F. H. Carr, Chief Chemist, Messrs. Boots Pure Drug Stores; Prof. F. G. Donnan, F.R.S., University College, London; Mr. W. P. Elderton; Mr. A. P. M. Fleming; Prof. P. F. Frankland, F.R.S., University of Birmingham; Dr. F. W. Edridge^Green; Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.R.S., University of Liverpool; Prof. J. C. Irvine, F.R.S., University of St. Andrews; Mr. J. G. Lawn; Prof. T. M. Lowry, F.R.S.; Mr. W. Macnab; Dr. R. A. O'Brien, Director, Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories; Mr. J. E. Sears, National Physical Laboratory; Mr. F. J. Selby, National Physical Laboratory; Dr. T. E. Stanton, F.R.S., National Physical Laboratory; Mr. G. Stubbs, Government Laboratory; Lieut. J. R. F. Wild, member of Sir E. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition; and Dr. Dawson Williams, editor, British Medical Journal.