 Among his other contributions in Japan, he is credited with the rediscovery (together with his friend, Alexander Croft Shaw), of former Nakasendō post town of Karuizawa, and its popularization as a summer resort.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1885.His proposers were Robert Flint, John Duns, William Swan, and his brother-in-law Cargill Gilston Knott.