[4][5] As a founding member of the American Ophthalmological Society, established on June 7, 1864, Henry D. Noyes joined 18 other physicians, including Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa and Edward Delafield, the society's first president.

[6][7] In the City of New York, he graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical College's class of 1865–1866 with a degree in practical anatomy.

[9] Elected to the Century Association in New York City on April 4, 1868, with endorsements from Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew and Henry Peters Gray, he maintained his membership until 1900.

[2] In 1872, Noyes was appointed to a provisional committee of New York physicians including Dr. C. R. Agnew and Dr. Daniel Bennett St. John Roosa who were selected to organize the Fifth International Congress of Ophthalmology in New York City.

[11] Henry Drury Noyes died at Mount Washington, Massachusetts, on November 12, 1900.