- Honours and awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society, 1793.
- Secretary, 1804-1816.
- President, briefly in 1820.
- Vice-president, 1820–1828
- Copley Medal, 1802
- Royal Medal, 1828.
- Croonian lecture, 1809
- Bakerian Lecture, 1802, 1805, 1812, 1828
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1813.
- Legacy
- Wollaston Medal
- List of Wollaston Medal recipients
- Wollaston, a lunar impact crater
- Wollastonite, a chain silicate mineral
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