Honours and Legacy
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1853)
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1863)
- The crater Hind on the Moon
- Asteroid 1897 Hind
- Comets C/1847 C1 (Hind) and C/1846 O1 (de Vico-Hind).
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