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THE New Year Honours Lists which were issued at the end of last week include five barons, five Privy Councillors, twenty-one baronets, sixty-nine knights, and two Companions of Honour. Among the honours we note in particular the following conferred upon men whose names are known in scientific fields:– Privy Councillor: The Rev. Dr. Thomas Hamilton, for service to the cause of education in Ireland, first as President of Queen's College, Belfast, and afterwards as President and Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast. Knights: Prof. P. R. Scott Lang, for more than forty years Regius professor of mathematics in the University of St. Andrews; Mr. P. J. Michelli, secretary to the London School of Tropical Medicine; Dr. S. S. Sprigge, editor of the Lancet; Prof. James Walker, professor of chemistry, University of Edinburgh; and Dr. Dawson Williams, editor of the British Medical Journal. C.M.G.: Mr. I. B. Pole Evans, chief of the division of botany and plant pathology, Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa. C.I.E.: Lt.-Col. W. F. Harvey, director of the Central Research Institute, Kasauli, Punjab, and Dr. E. J. Butler, formerly Imperial Mycologist, Pusa. K.C.V.O.: Dr. F. S. Hewett.