Participation in Scientific Societies
- Founding member of the Society of Systematic Zoology and served as president in 1948.
- President of the Washington Academy of Sciences in 1947.
- Trustee of the Bear's Bluff Laboratories,
- Trustee of the International Oceanographic Foundation
- Trustee of the Serological Museum of Rutgers University.
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