The Birthday Honours list is as uninteresting as any I
remember. The House of Lords gains Sir Steven Bilsland, a notable figure in the life of South-West Scotland, and five estimable Members of the House of Commons. Among the new knights the names of the veteran economist, Professor Bowley, Dr. A. W. Pickard-Cambridge, Mr. Philip Hendy (Curator of the National Gallery), Professor A. G. Tansley (Chairman of the Nature Conservancy) and Mr. J. C. Hanbury-Williams, chairman of Courtaulds (an interesting tribute to private enterprise), attract attention ; so does that of Mlle. Adeline Genee, President of the Royal Academy of Dancing. Neither literature nor the universities (for Dr. Pickard-Cambridge is not an active university teacher) nor journalism appear to have caught the Prime Minister's eye ; nor, in present circumstances, do I see any particular reason why they should. There will presumably in no distant future be Dissolution Honours, as an addition to the regular New Year and Birthday lists.
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