Awards
- He was awarded an honorary degree of LL.D. by University of St Andrews in 1934, the Victoria Medal (horticulture) in 1944 for outstanding contributions to horticulture, elected a member of the Royal Society in 1947, Linnaean Gold Medal in 1968 and the O.B.E. shortly before his death. Commemorated in the genus Hutchinsonia Robyns.
- He was awarded the Linnean Society of London's prestigious Darwin-Wallace Medal in 1958.
- He was elected Honorary Fellow of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in 1965
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