Felix Whitham has been the Treasurer of the Hull Geological Society since 1965. He has published many papers in Humberside Geologist, a stratigraphy of the Yorkshire Chalk in the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society and has written chapters for the Geologists' Association and YGS guide to Yorkshire. In 1991 he won second prize in the Geological Collector of the Year competition sponsored by the G.A. and the Geological Curators Group. In 1992 won a prize for amateur research from the Palaeontological Association and the R. H. Worth Prize from the Geological Society (of London). He was awarded an honorary D.Sc. Degree from Hull University in 1992. He is also an Honorary Life Member of the Hull Geological Society