Dufour was also a co-founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, founder of the Swiss Federal Office of Topography and architect of the first complete geodetic survey of Switzerland. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 18 April 1977 (M.P.C. 4157). The Dufourspitze, the Alp's second-highest mountain after the Mont Blanc, was also named in his honour.