In July 1906, he established South Africa's first 24-hour weather forecasts through telegraph in the Transvaal.
[1] In 1909, he married Mary Ethel Greengrass, also a physics graduate of Manchester University.
Wood served as the observatory's director from 1928 to 1941, succeeding Robert Innes.
[2] Wood is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 12 numbered asteroids during 1911–1932.
The asteroid 1660 Wood, discovered by his colleague Jacobus Bruwer at Johannesburg, is named in his honour (M.P.C.