[2] At the London University he won the Gold Medal and Scholarship in organic chemistry and gained 1st class honours in physiology.
[3] His success in discovering the regular order in which the different assemblages of fossils occurred in Staffordshire and Derbyshire gradually led him further afield.
[3]Wheelton Hind published numerous articles in the Transactions of the North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club.
His monograph On the Lamellibranch and Gasteropod Fauna found in the Millstone Grit of Scotland was a revision of the stratigraphy of Carboniferous Mollusca[2] and won him the honour of the Keith Medal.
[5] In 1897, he was awarded the North Staffordshire Field Club's Garner Medal "for his researches into the geology and palæontology of the carboniferous period, and especially for his monographs on the Carbonicola, Anthracomya, and Naiadites, published by the Palæontographical Society".