AN HONORARY DEGREE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20013, 22 January 1935, Page 6

AN HONORARY DEGREE

FAMOUS ANTHROPOLOGIST By Te’egraph—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 New 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 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 wellknown book “Children of the Twilight” published in 1928. He has also published and edited reports on 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.