1841. The Old Red Sandstone; or, New Walks in an Old Field. Edinburgh (republished from Witness).
1847. First Impressions of England and its People. Edinburgh.
1847. Footprints of the Creator; or, the Asterolepis of Stromness. London, 1849.
1848. The Sites Bill and the Toleration Laws; being an Examination of the Resolutions of the Rev. Dr. Alexander of Argyle Square Chapel Congregation. Edinburgh.
1848. Geology of the Bass Rock (section contributed to M'Crie's History of the Bass Rock). Edinburgh.
1850. Thoughts on Education. Edinburgh (republished from Witness.)
1852. My Schools and Schoolmasters; or, the Story of My Education (Edinburgh, 1854). Popular edition by W. P. Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, Edinburgh, 1893.
1854. The Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland. Edinburgh (address to Royal Physical Society, 22 Nov. 1854).
1855. Geology versus Astronomy; or, the Conditions and the Periods; being a view of the Modifying Effects of Geological Discovery on the Old Astronomic Inferences respecting the Plurality of Inhabited Worlds. Glasgow.
1857. The Testimony of the Rocks; or, Geology in its bearing on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed. Edinburgh (Twelve lectures before the Edinburgh Philosophical Society, British Association, 1855, etc.).