UNIVERSITY HONOUR.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 94, 22 April 1935, Page 3

UNIVERSITY HONOUR.

FORMER NEW ZEALANDER.

DR. D. JENNESS, OF OTTAWA.

The Senate of the University of New Zealand in January last awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature to Mr. Diamond Jenness, M.A., a graduate of Victoria University College, Wellington, who is on the staff of the National Museum of Canada, Ottawa. The executive committee of the Senate, at its meeting in Wellington last week, received a letter from Dr. Jenness expressing liis appreciation. "Such an honour from my own country, from the university where I spent four of the happiest years of my life, gives me greater pleasure than I can express," Dr. Jenness wrote. "We who have wandered away from our New Zealand homes feel that we carry a double responsibility, for while we owe our best services to the countries that have adopted us, we realise that those services inevitably must reflect credit or discredit on our motherland. Like most men, I live too close to my work to be able to appraise its true value, yet I can ask for no higher reward than to have it thus recognised and crowned by my own university." The degree awarded Dr. Jenness is the first honorary Doctorate in Literature the University of New Zealand has awarded, and in all the third honorary degree. Honorary doctorates in science have been awarded Lord Rutherford of N'clson, diiector of the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Xew Zealand's greatest living son, and to the late Dr. Leonard Cockayne formerly of Wellington. Dp, Jenness, who is chief of the division of anthropology, National Museum of Canada, was born in WeiHngton in lS8(i. He was educated in | Victoria University College, where he took his jr.A. degree with first-class honours in 1008 and at Balliol College, Oxford. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the Royal Anthropological Institute. lie was research student in ethnology at Papua, for Oxford University in 1911-12, ethnologist with the Canadian Arctic Expedition, 1013-10, and Canadian ethnologist from 191(i to 1025, in which year ho was appointed to his present position.