Honorary degrees to be conferred

Four honorary Doctorates of Science will be conferred by the University of New Zealand in the next few months, according to a decision reached in committee by the Senate meeting last month. The Prime Minister. Mr. Holland, whose name had been linked with the subject of honorary degrees, is not one of those to be thus honoured.

The four recipients ore all men who have rendered valuable service to scientific scholarship and research in Australian and New Zealand. They are:

Sir MacFarlane Burnet, F.R.S., M.I). (Melb.), Ph.D. (Lond.), Hon. D.Sc. (Cantab.), director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Research Institute, Melbourne.

Sir Theodore Rigg, M.Sc.. Hon. D.Sc. (W.A.), formerly director of the Cawthron Institute and Chairman of CSIR.

Mr. L. J. Wild, C.B.E.. B.Sc.. M.A.. pro-chancellor of the University of New Zealand.

Mr. A. W. B. Powell, of the Auckland Museum, a world authority on mollusca.