Награжден:
Gold Medal (Royal Geographical Society, 1853)
Silver Medal (French Geographical Society, 1854)
Gold Medal (Royal Society, 1886)
Officier de l’Instruction Publique (France, 1891)
Huxley Medal (Anthropological Institute, 1901)
Darwin Medal (Royal Society, 1902)
Darwin-Wallace Medal (Linnean Society of London, 1908)
Copley Medal (Royal Society of London, 1910)
Основные труды:
«Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa» (1853)
«Hereditary Genius» (1869)
«Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development» (1883)
«Finger prints» (1892)
«Decipherment of Blurred Finger Prints» (1893)
«Fingerprint Directories» (1895)
