DR JENNESS HONOURED

Evening Star, Issue 21934, 22 January 1935, Page 11

DR JENNESS HONOURED

HONORARY DEGREE FROM HIS UNIVERSITY A NOTED ANTHROPOLOGIST (Pen United Press Association. | CHRISTCHURCH, January 21. The honorary degree of doctor of literature was conferred on Mr Diamond Jeuness by the senate of the University of Ne\v Zealand to-day on the recommendation of the Academic Board. Dr Jenness was formerly a student of Victoria University College, graduating M.A. in 1908 with first-class honours in classics. He is at present chief of the anthropological section under the Canadian Government, and in charge of the Anthropological Department of the Canadian .National! Museum, Ontario. Dr Jenness has written numerous and extensive reports on various phases of Eskimo anthropology, and, in addition, a well-known book, ‘ Children of the Twilight,’ published in 1928. He has also published and edited reports on the American aborigines. He is recognised as one of the leading anthropologists of the present day, and his published works are evidence of his outstanding literary ability.