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- An inquiry into the question whether the apis mellifica, or true honey-bee, is a native of America. Ditto, 20 pages quarto.
- A botanical description of the podophyllum diphyllum of Linnaeus, in a letter to Charles Peter Thunberg, M. D. Knight of the Order of Wasa, Professor of Medicine and Botany in the University of Upsal, &c. Ditto, 14 pages quarto, accompanied with a plate of the plant to which Dr. Barton gave the name of Jeffersonia, in honour of Thomas Jefferson.
- An account of the fascinating faculty which has been ascribed to the rattle-snake and other North American serpents. Vol. 4th of the Philo. Trans. 40 pages quarto. (This paper afterwards appeared in the form of a separate work, as has been mentioned, and went through two editions.)
- Some account of an American species of dipus or jerboa. Ditto, with an engraving of the animal. 11 pages quarto.
- Observations and conjectures concerning certain articles which were taken out of an ancient tumulus or grave, at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton, and territory of the United States, northwest of the Ohio; in a letter to Dr. Priestley. Ditto, 36 pages quarto.
- Hints relative to the stimulant effects of camphor upon vegetables. Ditto, 3 pages quarto.
- Some account of the poisonous and injurious honey of North America. Vol. 5, Phil. Trans. 16 pages quarto.
- Memorandum concerning a new vegetable muscipula. Vol. 6, Phil. Trans. 3 pages quarto.
- Some account of a new species of North American lizard.— Ditto, 5 pages quarto, with an engraving of the animal.
- Supplement to the account of the dipus Americana, in the 4th vol. of the transactions of the Am. Ph. Society. Ditto, 2 pages quarto.
- Hints on the etymology of certain English words, and on their affinity to words in the languages of different European, Asiatic and American (Indian) nations, in a letter to Dr. Thomas Beddoes. Ditto, 13 pages.
Besides these there are other papers which will appear in the next volume of the society's transactions, and which have been read some years: viz.
