Awards
- 1941, awarded the A. Cressey Morrison Award in Natural History, New York Academy of Science
- 1956, awarded the Rockefeller Public Service Award
- 1956, elected an honorary fellow of the Paleontological Society of India
- 1959, awarded the Department of Interior Distinguished Service Award
- 1961, elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- 1969, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1971, awarded the Paleontological Society of America Medal
- 1973, awarded the Lucius Wilbur Cross Medal of the American Philosophical Society
- 1973, elected to the American Philosophical Society
- 1976, awarded the Penrose Medal by the Geological Society of America
- 1977, awarded the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal by the National Academy of Sciences
- 1980, elected a Foreign Member, Polish Academy of Sciences
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