On a Recent Formation of Freshwater Limestone in Forfarshire ("Transactions of the Geological Society" 2nd series, volume 2, 1826, part 1).
On a Dike of Serpentine in the County of Forfar ("Edinburgh Journal of Science" 1825).
English Scientific Societies ("Quarterly Review" volume 34; three papers with Sir Roderick and Mrs. Murchison ("Edinburgh Philosophical Journal," 1829; abstract in "Proceedings of the Geological Society" 1; "Annales des Sciences Naturelles" 1829; abstract in "Proceedings of the Geological Society" 1).
Address delivered at the Geological Society of London, 1836.
Lectures on Geology—Eight Lectures on Geology, delivered at the Broadway Tabernacle, New York ("New York Tribune" 1842).
A Paper on Madeira ("Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society" 10, 1853).
On the Structure of Lavas which have Consolidated on Steep Slopes ("Philosophical Transactions" 1858).
Antiquity of Man, translated into French by M. Chaper, 1864; and into German by L. Buchner, 1874.
Elements of Geology (sixth edition), translated into French by M. J. Gineston, 1867.
Report, extracted from the "Aberdeen Free Press" and translated into French, of Sir C. Lyell's address before the British Association, 1859, under the title of Antiquities antediluviennes: L'homme fossile.