Ia tusia se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - Na matuā lauiloa Armsby a o soifua o ia. Na ia mauaina ni faailoga taualoa mai le Iunivesite o Wisconsin (1904), le Iunivesite o Yale (1920), ma le Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1921). Na filifilia o ia e avea ma sui o le National Academy of Sciences, le Royal Society of Arts, ma le Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry. Na ia mauaina se pine auro i le Panama-Pacific International Exposition
i le 1915 mo lana ata o le calorimeter lea na ia fuafuaina i le Penn State. Na taʻua o ia e se lipoti a le Matagaluega o Faatoʻaga a le Iunaite Setete, "o le tagata pito i sili ona lauiloa i le suʻesuʻeina o meaʻai a manu i le atunuu ma o se tagata aloaʻia faavaomalo".