He was a member of the Acadèmia de les Ciències i Arts de Barcelona; a member of the Institució Catalana d’Història Natural, where he was the president twice in 1906 and in 1911; and a member of the science section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC), where he was also a president in 1911.
One of his most famous works is: Catàleg d’Insectes de Catalunya. Himenòpters(1902-06), which was realised with the collaboration of Pere Antiga and published by the IEC