Honors
- Won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1865.
- Mount Bond, West Bond, and Bondcliff among the White Mountains are all named after him.
- The crater G. Bond on the Moon is named after him, as is the crater Bond on Mars.
- The Bond albedo, which is important for describing a planetary body's energy balance, is also named for him.
- A region on Hyperion is called the "Bond-Lassell Dorsum"
- Asteroid (767) Bondia is jointly named after him and his father.
- The Bond Gap within Saturn's C Ring is jointly named after him and his father.
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