In England, Godwin-Austen was the author of "The Land and Freshwater Mollusca of India", of which the first volume was published in parts between 1882 and 1888, the second appearing in the same way between 1897 and 1914. This work brought him recognition as a malacologist, and from 1897 to 1899 he served as an early President of the Malacological Society of London. In 1910 he received a gold medal from the Royal Geographical Society. He died on 2 December 1923.