27 AUGUST 1937, Page 21

MR. BURNS' DOCTORATE

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—" Janus," in your issue of The Spectator of the 20th instant, in the last paragraph of "A Spectator's Notebook," states that "Mr. Burns shows visitors to his house on Clapham Common the gown of his honorary doctorate at, I think, Glasgow."

The gown of his honorary doctorate was given at, and by, the Birmingham University.—Yours faithfully,