- Essays on the use and limit of the imagination in science
- Faraday as a Discoverer
- Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, and Reviews. V. 1-2
- Hours of Exercise in the Alps
- Six Lectures on Light: Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873
- Sound
- The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers
- The Glaciers of the Alps: Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, an account of the origin and phenomena of glaciers and an exposition of the physical principles to which they are related