THE King's Birthday honours list includes the names of the following scientific workers and others associated with scientific activities. Baron: Sir Edward Allen Brotherton, chemical manufacturer. Privy Councillor: Lord Dawson of Penn, Physician in-Ordinary to the King. Baronets: Sir E. F. Buzzard, Physician Extraordinary to the King; Sir Hugh Mallinson Rigby, Sergeant Surgeon to the King. Knights: Prof. H. C. H. Carpenter, professor of metallurgy in the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science and Technology; Mr. J. J. Ralph Jackson, Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; Mr. W. S. Jarratt, Comptroller-General of the Patent Office; Prof. W. C. MacKenzie, Director, and professor of comparative anatomy, National Museum of Australian Zoology; Dr. Peter Chalmers Mitchell, Secretary of the Zoological Society of London; Prof. C. V. Raman, Palit professor of physics in the University of Calcutta; Brigadier E. A. Tandy, Surveyor-General of India (retired); Dr. R. S. Woods, Honorary Physician and Honorary Surgeon, London Hospital. K.C.B.: Sir F. S. Hewett, Surgeon Apothecary to the King. C.B.: Major-General H. P. W. Barrow, Director of Hygiene, War Office. C.S.I.: Mr. James Herman Field, late Director-General of Observatories, India. G.C.M.G.: Sir John Cadman, emeritus professor of mining, University of Birmingham. C.M.G.: Dr. L. Cockayne, in respect of honorary scientific services to the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand; Mr. O. F. H. Atkey, Director of the Sudan Medical: Service. G.C.V.O.: Sir Humphry Rolleston, Physician-in-Ordinary to the King. C.V.O.: Dr. L. E. H. Whitby, bacteriologist. M.V.O.: Prof. E. C. Dodds, professor of bio-chemistry at Middlesex Hospital. C.I.S.O.: Mr. W. A. Baker, lately Surveyor-General, Jamaica; Mr. J. F. Halpin, Superintending Chemist, Government Chemist's Department. G.B.E.: Prof. Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, professor of botany in the University of London; Sir Arthur McDougall Duckham, Director-General of Aircraft Production. K.B.E.: Major-General T. H. Symons, Honorary Surgeon to the King, Director-General, Indian Medical Service. C.B.E.: Mr. P. N. H. Jones, Director of Public Works, Bermuda; Lieut.—Col. F. J. McCall, Director of Veterinary Services, Tanganyika Territory; Capt. R. S. Rattray, for services as Government Anthropologist in the Gold Coast and to aviation in West Africa; Col. A. H. Safford, Assistant Director of Medical Services, Baluchistan District, India; Mr. Nicholas White, Chief Engineer, and Secretary to the Government of the Punjab, Irrigation Branch. O.B.E.: Mr. H. Brown, Principal Officer, Plant and Animal Products Department, Imperial Institute; Major D. G. Cheyne, Deputy Assistant Director of Hygiene, China Command; Dr. F. Dixey, Director of the Geological Survey, Nyasaland Protectorate; Major J. N. Duggan, professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery, Grant Medical College, Bombay; Mr. J. C. F. Fryer, Director, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Pathological Laboratory, Harpenden; Lieut.—Col. F. J. M. Stratton, professor of astrophysics in the University of Cambridge; Mr. G. Stuart, Assistant Director, Laboratories, Department of Health, Palestine. M.B.E.: Mr. E. W. Davy, Assistant Director of Agriculture, Nyasaland Protectorate.