*1847 fellow of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts
*1848 a member of the Glasgow Philosophical Society (now Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow)
*1855 elected Fellow of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, the University of Glasgow
*1855 elected member (1857–59 Hon. Sec), the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, later to become the Royal Society of Victoria
*1860 vice-president of Royal Society of Victoria