She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1985 New Year Honours. In her old age she was anxious and depressed about the future, particularly the misuse of scientific development such as nuclear arms. She stated that to experience two world wars in a lifetime was too much. On the other hand, she never exhausted the Haldanes' eccentricity, and once remarked in her biography in Who's Who that her recreation was "burning rubbish". When asked on her 90th birthday whether she had regrets in life, she replied, "Yes, all the men I never slept with. Imagine!" She died at Carradale on 11 January 1999 at the age of 101, and was cremated at the Clydebank crematorium on 16 January. Her ashes were then scattered there. Honours and recognitions Honorary doctorate from the University of Stirling, Scotland, in 1976 Honorary LLD (Doctor of Law) from the University of Dundee, Scotland, in 1985 Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1990 DLitt from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in 1983 Elected Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, in 1980, and Wolfson College in 1983 CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1985 James Watson (winner of 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) wrote much of his book The Double Helix while staying with the Mitchisons, and dedicated it to her. Published works Autobiography Mitchison's autobiography is in three parts: Small Talk: Memoirs of an Edwardian Childhood (1973; reprinted, with an introductory essay by Ali Smith, Kennedy & Boyd, 2009) All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage (1975) [Small Talk and All Change Here were republished as a single volume As It Was: An Autobiography 1897–1918 in 1975] Mucking Around (1981) Among You Taking Notes. The Wartime Diary of Naomi Mitchison (1986) (Autobiographical sketches from Mitchison's diaries during the Second World War, written for "Mass Observation", selected and edited by Dorothy Sheridan.) Novels The Conquered (1923; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2009) Cloud Cuckoo Land (1925; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2011) The Hostages (1930) The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1931) Boys and Girls and Gods (1931) The Price of Freedom (1931) Powers of Light (1932) The Delicate Fire (1933; reprinted, with an introduction by Isobel Murray, Kennedy & Boyd, 2012) Beyond this Limit (1935; 'Pictures by Wyndham Lewis and Words by Naomi