Honours in English and geography at the University of Sydney (BA, 1926; Dip.Ed., 1927; MA, 1929)
Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London (Ph.D., 1931)
(Deceased), 1989-08-02
1943
Founding Fellow of the ASSA
Wellcome (1944) and Rivers (1946) medals of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
An honorary fellow (1968) of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, he was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Sydney in 1983