 Together with his brother-in-law Professor Frederick Kipping, Perkin wrote textbooks on practical chemistry, inorganic and organic chemistry; their "Organic Chemistry" appeared in 1899.Perkin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1890 and was awarded their Davy Medal in 1904 and their Royal Medal in 1925.He was president of the Chemical Society from 1913 to 1916 and was awarded their Longstaff Medal in 1900.