HONORARY DEGREE
PROMINENT ANTHROPOLOGIST
RECOGNIZED.
FORMER NEW ZEALAND STUDENT.
(Per United Press Association.)
Christchurch, January 21.
The honorary degree of Doctor of Literature was conferred on Mr Diamond Jenness by the Senate of the University of Nev/ Zealand to-day on the recommendation of the Academic Board.
Dr. Jenness was formerly a student at 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 is in charge of the anthropological department of the Canadian National Museum, Ontario. Dr. Jenness has written numerous and extensive reports on the 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 recognized as one of the leading anthropologists of the present day, and his published works are evidence of his outstanding literary ability.
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Southland Times, Issue 22486, 22 January 1935, Page 5
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