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THE list of honours conferred in celebration of the King's Birthday includes the following names of men associated with scientific work:—Irish Privy Councillor: Mr. H. T. Barrie, Vice-President, Irish Department of Agriculture. K.C.B.: Sir A. W. Watson, president of the Institute of Actuaries. C.B.: Mr. A. W. Flux, Assistant Secretary, Board of Trade. Baronet: Mr. P. J. Mackie, who financed the Mackie Anthropological Expedition to Uganda and other expeditions Knights: Prof. F. W. Andrewes, F.R.S., pathologist at St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Capt. D. Wilson-Barker, captain-superintendent of the training-ship Worcester, and past-president of the Royal Meteorological Society; Dr. J. C. Beattie, Principal of the University of the Cape of Good Hope; Mr. W. B. M. Bird, founder of the Salters' Institute of Industrial Chemistry; Dr. H. H. Hayden, Director of the Geological Survey of India; and Prof. J. B. Henderson, professor of applied mechanics, Royal Naval College, Greenwich. C.I.E.: Mr. C. M. Hutchinson, Imperial Agricultural Bacteriologist, and Mr. R. S. Pearson, Forest Economist, Research Institute, Dehra Dun. K.B.E.: Dr. J. Dundas-Grant, eminent aural specialist; Dr. J. C. Stamp, distinguished economist; and Col. W. Taylor, ex-president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Companions of the Imperial Service Order: Mr. R. B. Newton, assistant in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History); Dr. W. Eagle Clark, keeper of Natural History Department, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh; and Mr. R. Duncan, Staff Officer, Veterinary Branch, Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction, Ireland.