HONORARY DOCTOR
Sir William Benham UNIVERSITY TRIBUTE The senate of the University of New Zealand yesterday conferred the honorary degree of doctor of science on Sir William Benham, emeritus professor of zoology at the University of Otago for his contributions to science. Sir William Benham is 81, aud lives in Dunedin. He was professor of biology at the University of Otago from 1898 to 1937 and is the author of numerous scientific monographs. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and already holds the degrees of DSe. (London) and M.A. (Oxon). He was educated at Marlborough College, England, and University College, London. Before his appointment as a professor in Dunedin he was a demonstrator for seven years at Oxford. Among the distinguished offices he has occupied are those of governor of the New Zealand Institute in 1905, and president in 1917-18, president of the New Zealand Eugenics Society, member of the Otago University Council and member of the senate of the University of New Zealand. lie has taken an active part in the control of the affairs of the Workers’ Educational Association in Dunedin and the. Dunedin branch of the Overseas League. He was knighted in 1939.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 99, 21 January 1942, Page 6
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