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THE King's birthday honours list includes the names of the following men of science and others associated with scientific work and development. Baron: Sir Hugo Hirst, chairman and managing director of the General Electric Company, Ltd. G.B.E.: Sir John Reith, Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation. K.B.E.: Dr. F. G. Banting, Dominion of Canada, discoverer of insulin. Knights: Major R. G. Archibald, director of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Sudan; Mr. A. W. Flux, honorary vice-president (past president) of the Royal Statistical Society; Mr. Albert Howard, lately agricultural adviser to the States in Central India and Rajputana; Dr. W. H. Moberly, vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester; Dr. C. E. Saunders, lately Dominion cerealist, Dominion of Canada, discoverer of Marquis, Ruby, Reward and Garnet Wheat; Prof. G. Elliot Smith, professor of anatomy in the University of London (University College). C.B.: Dr. R. E. Stradling, director of Building and Road Research, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. C.M.G.: Mr. A. C. Bagshawe, secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Lands, Southern Rhodesia; Prof. R. S. Troup, director of the Imperial Forestry Institute and professor of forestry in the University of Oxford, for services to forestry in the Colonies. C.I.E.: Mr. F. Canning, chief conservator of forests, United Provinces; Mr. P. E. Aitchison, chief conservator of forests, Bombay Presidency; Mr. W. McRae, director and Imperial mycologist, Imperial Institute of Agricultural Research, Pusa. C.B.E.: Dr. W. L. Balls, chief botanist, Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture; Mr. L. St. L. Pendred, editor-in-chief of the Engineer; Dr. L. J. Spencer, keeper of minerals, British Museum (Natural History).
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King's Birthday Honours. Nature 133, 862 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133862b0
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