text: *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