Awarded Hamilton Memorial Prize jointly with Finlay 1933 - awarded Hector Memorial Medal and Prize (with William Noel Benson) 1935 - appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1937 to 1938 - chairman, geology section of the Wellington Philosophical Society 1938 to 1946 - editor of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1944 to 1950 - on the council of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1950 to 1952 - vice president of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1953 - Hutton Memorial Medal