The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland administer a bursary known as the Henry Dryerre Scholarship which is named in his honour.
[3] From 1930 he continued at the Vet College but exchanged his University lecturing for a role as a biochemist at the Animal Disease Research Association.
His proposers were Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, Anderson Gray McKendrick, Lancelot Hogben and Arthur Robertson Cushny.
On Agnes’ death in 1989 she left monies to the Royal Society of Edinburgh to establish the Henry Dryerre Scholarship in his memory.
The scholarship is offered every three years to a student obtaining a first class degree in medicine or veterinary studies wishing to undertake a related PhD at a Scottish institution.