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LONG lists of New Year honours—mostly conferred for services rendered in connection with military or naval operations—were published on Monday. We notice in these lists the following names and distinctions:—K.C.S.I.: Sir Francis E. Younghusband, the distinguished traveller and geographer; Maj.-Gen. R. C. O. Stuart, Director-General of Ordnance in India. C.I.E.: S. M. Burrows, secretary to the Oxford Delegacy for Oriental Students; P. J. Hartog, lately secretary to departmental committees on the organisation of Oriental Studies in London. Kaisar-i-Hind Medal for Public Services in India, First Class: Sir F. A. Nicholson, Honorary Director of Fisheries, Madras; and Dr. H. H. Mann, principal, Agricultural. College, Poona, and agricultural chemist, Bombay. The following medical men are among ithose;, on whom honours are conferred for services in the fiew:- K.C.B.: Surgeon-General H. R. Whitehead. C.B.: Col. J. M. Irwin, Col. R. L. R. Macleod, Col. G. Cree, Col. A. A. Sutton, Col. G. H. Barefoot, Temp.-Col. T. Sinclair, Lieut.-Col. E. T. F. Birrell. K.C.M.G.: Col. M. P. C. Holt, C.M.G.: Col. T. Daly, Col. W. L. Gray, Col. F: R. Newland, Col. H. T. Knaggs, Col. H. I. Pocock, Col. B. H. Scott, Col. R. W. Wright, Col. T. Du Bedal Whaite, Col. F. J. Morgan, Temp.-Col. T. C. English, Lieut.-Col. A. R. Aldridge, Lieut.-Col. J. D. Ferguson, Lieut.-Col. F. H. Withers, Lieut.-Col. F. R. Buswell, Lieut.-Col. L. F. Smith, Lieut.-Col. F. A. Symons, Temp.-Lieut.-Col. G. M. Holmes, Temp.-Lieut.-Col. H. L. Eason.