THE JOURNAL 



OF THE 



MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE 



Vol. XXIX. No. 5. 



AUGUST, 1922 



NOTES FOR THE MONTH. 



The ceremony of the conferring of honorary degrees at Cam- 

 bridge is always interesting. The historic Senate House, the 



-._ _ dignity of the proceedings, and the nn- 



Honorary Degrees , ° , l . , . f +1 



^ ° familiar tongue m which they are con- 



. . ducted, the black or scarlet gowns of the 



° 1 University potentates culminating in the 



black and gold of the " most illustrious Chancellor," above all 

 the eminence of the men who are there to receive honour from 

 a great man, the chosen head and representative of a great 

 University — all these combine to impress the most casual 

 visitor. 



But this year everyone who is concerned with agriculture 

 must have felt a special interest in the proceedings; for six out 

 of the nine who received honorary degrees on the 6th July, 

 were men whose names are known throughout this country and 

 beyond it because of their services to that great industry. They 

 were Mr. C. E. W. Adeane, Sir Gilbert Greenall, Sir Daniel 

 Hall, Mr. E. S. Beaven, Mr. A. E. Humphries and Mr. 

 Ernest Mathews. 



It is the practice for the Public Orator of the University in 

 presenting to the Chancellor (at present the Earl of Balfour) 

 each recipient of an honorary degree, to make a short speech 

 describing the activities, virtues and services of the candidate 

 — whose blushes are spared (unless he happens to retain a good 

 share of youthful acquirements) because the speech is involved 

 in the decent obscurity of a dead language. In the present case 

 some account of these brief biographies may be interesting to 

 readers of the Journal. 



Mr. C. E. W. Adeane, the Public Orator said, is familiar 

 to Cambridgeshire, of which he is Lord Lieutenant : ho is 



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