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THE New Year honours list contains the following names of men of science and others associated with scientific work and interests: Knights: B. C. Burt, agricultural expert to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research; H. B. Devine, for services to surgery in the State of Victoria; Prof. A. Harden, emeritus professor of biochemistry, University of London; Dr. H. J. W. Hetherington, vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool; Dr. Humphrey Milford, publisher to the University of Oxford; Prof. D. P. D. Wilkie, professor of surgery at the University of Edinburgh, member of the Medical Research Council; C.B.: A. Humphries, late chief mechanical engineer and superintendent, Building Works, Engineering Department, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich; C.M.G.: Willi Fels, for services to ethnology in the Dominion of New Zealand; A. C. Barnes, director of agriculture, Jamaica; G. T. McCaw, civil assistant, War Office, for services in connexion with surveys in the Colonies; H. R. Montgomery, chief native commissioner, Kenya; W. Nowell, director of the East African Agricultural Research Station; C.I.E.: R. G. Allan, director of agriculture, United Provinces, India; E. A. Wraight, metallurgical inspector, Jamshedpur; C.B.E.: J. N. Cameron, director of the Department of Agriculture, Sudan Government; Lieut.-Colonel A. MacD. Dick, professor of ophthalmology, King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Punjab; Dr. P. Hartley, director of the Department of Biological Standards, Medical Research Council; J. F. Marshall, honorary director of the British Mosquito Control Institute, Hay ling Island; A. J. Martin, assistant comptroller, Patent Office, Board of Trade; O.B.E.: Dr. S. S. Bhatnagar, professor of physical chemistry and director, University Laboratories, Punjab University; T. Crook, principal of the Mineral Resources Department, Imperial Institute; Dr. R. W. Dodgson, director of shellfish services, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; F. A. A. Hart, forest adviser, Eastern States Agency; G. E. Holden, technical adviser to the Dyestuffs Advisory Licensing Committee; Dr. N. R. Junner, director of the Geological Survey, Gold Coast; E. MacDonald, conservator of forests, Sierra Leone; F. Rayns, director of the Norfolk Agricultural Station; Capt. A. T. A. Ritchie, game warden, Kenya; H. L. Stevens, principal scientific officer, Air Ministry; T. Waites, Government statistician, State of New South Wales; M.B.E.: T. Close, agricultural machinery officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; R. R. Glanville, agricultural officer, Sierre Leone; A. F. B. Hull, for services to natural history in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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New Year Honours. Nature 137, 15 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137015b0
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