FITTING REWARD.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20519, 22 January 1935, Page 14

FITTING REWARD.

Senate Honours New Zealand Student. The honorary degree of Doctor of Literature has been conferred by the Senate of the University of New Zealand upon Dr Diamond Jenness, chief of the anthropological section under the Canadian Government, and now in charge of the anthropological department of the Canadian National Museum, Ontario. 1 Dr Jenness was a student of Victoria College, and graduated M.A. in 190 S, with first-class honours in classics. He went on to Oxford and then took the second part of Literae Humaniores, and also obtained the diploma in anthropology. In 1912 he conducted an expedition to the D’Entrecasteaux Islands, where his brother-in-law was a missionary, and with him published an account of his researches in 1920, entitled “The Northern D’Entrecasteaux." lie was a member of the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, and has written numerous and extensive reports dealing with various phases of Eskimo anthropology, and in addition a well-known book entitled “ Children of the Twilight.” In 1932 he published an exhaustive report on the Indians of Canada. In 1933 an important series of monographs by leading American authorities dealing with American aborigines was published under his editorship, and to the series he contributed a paper, “ The Problem of the Eskimo.”

lie is recognised as one of the leading anthropologists of the present day, and his published works are evidence of his outstanding literary ability.