26 FEBRUARY 1943, Page 14

PROFESSORS

SIR,—Does not the title of Emeritus Professor properly applied to Drs. - Gilbert Murray and Ernest Barker indicate that they should retain the title "Professor " ? The analogy is with " Dowager."

In any case, is it in order for "Janus " to alter Hansard, in which the Junior Burgess of Cambridge University is always referred to as Professor A V. Hill ?—Yours, R. GLYNN GRYLLS.

[" Janus " writes: If either Dr. Murray or Dr. Barker has been accorded the title of Emeritus he should be spoken of as Professor, but I was not aware that either of them had. As to Professor Hill, I was not quoting his question from Hansard but from The Times, and I quoted accurately.]