 In 1965 he was awarded the Chree Medal and in 1974 the Glazebrook Medal from the Institute of Physics and was President of the Institute from 1976 to 1978.From 1968 to 1970 he was President of the Royal Meteorological Society of which he was an honorary member, and from whom he received the Symons Gold Medal in 1975.In 1974 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland, choosing the subject "Recent Developments in Weather Forecasting".