Professor Fraser MacKaenzie, M.A. (N.Z. and Birm.), D. as L (Paris). Hon. LL.D. (Montpellier); Chevalier, Legion of Honour, who has a one-year appointment as Professor of French at victoria, returns to his birth-place after an absence of 25 years. One of New Zealand's most distinguished scholars, he was assistant lecturer in French at St. Andrew's University in Scotland, senior lecturer at Aberdeen. University, and has occupied the chair of French at Birmingham University since 1940. At two-yearly intervals he has lectured at Montpellier University, the oldest in France, as Visiting Professor of French. Montpellier recognised his services by awarding him an honorary doctorate.