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THE following names of men of science and others associated with scientific work appear in the King's Birthday Honours List: Baronet: Dr. R. Hutchison, president of the Royal College of Physicians; K.B.E.: Prof. W. B. Benham, emeritus professor of biology, University of Otago, Dominion of New Zealand; Prof. T. A. Hunter, professor of philosophy and psychology, Victoria College, University of New Zealand; the Hon. P. H. Rogers, judge of the Supreme Court, and chancellor of the University of Sydney. Knights Bachelor: Dr. E. J. Butler, secretary to the Committee of the Privy Council for Agricultural Research and secretary to the Agricultural Research Council; Mr. F. Carnegie, chief superintendent of Ordnance Factories, War Office; Dr. R. E. Kelly, professor of surgery, University of Liverpool; Prof. J. Graham Kerr, M.P. for the Scottish Universities since June 1935, formerly regius professor of zoology in the University of Glasgow; Prof. O. W. Richardson, Yarrow research professor of the Royal Society, University of London; Prof. J. F. Thorpe, chairman of the Smoke Sub-Committee, Chemical Defence Committee, War Office, emeritus professor of organic chemistry in the University of London, and in the Imperial College.
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King's Birthday Honours. Nature 143, 1013–1014 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1431013c0
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