He was president of the Royal Society of New South Wales (1924), the Linnean Society of New South Wales (1932), the Anthropological Society of New South Wales (1930 and 1931), and the Geographical Society of New South Wales (1941 and 1942). He was among the founders of the Art Galleries and Museums Association of Australia and New Zealand, and a member of the Australian National Research Council. Additionally he was a corresponding member of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and a corresponding member of the Zoological Society of London.