Coronation Honours

Abstract

THE following names of scientific workers and others associated with scientific work appear in the list of Coronation honours conferred by H.M. the King: Barons: The Right Hon. Christopher Addison, first Minister of Health, 1919-21, and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1930-31; Sir John Cadman, chairman, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and Iraq Petroleum Company. G.C.M.G.: Sir Frederick Leith Ross, chief economic adviser to His Majesty's Government. K.C.B.: E. J. Forsdyke, director and principal librarian, British Museum; Prof. E. Mellanby, secretary of the Medical Research Council. K.G.M.G.: Sir David Chadwick, secretary of the Imperial Economic Committee and of the Executive Council of the Imperial Agricultural Bureaux; Prof. A. P. W. Thomas, emeritus professor of botany, zoology and geology, Auckland University College, New Zealand. Baronet: Sir David Milne-Watson, president of the National Gas Council and Governor of the Gas Light and Coke Company. Knights: Prof. R. W. Chapman, professor of engineering, University of Adelaide, South Australia; Brigadier H. J. Couchman, surveyor-general of India; Dr. Allen Mawer, provost of University College, London, and director of the Survey of English Place Names; Colonel A. Olver, expert adviser in animal husbandry to the Imperial Council of Agricultural Research; Dr. R. H. Pickard, director of the British Cotton Industry Research Association; Dr. D'Arcy W. Thompson, professor of natural history, University of St. Andrews. C.H.: Prof. C. T. R. Wilson, for services to experimental physics.