- On collections of Tertiary plants from the vicinity of the city of Vancouver, B.C.
- Modern ideas of derivation: address of Principal Dawson as president of the Natural History Society of Montreal, read at the annual meeting, May 18th, 1869
- Thirty-Eight Years of McGill: Being the Annual University Lecture of McGill University, Montreal, for the Session of 1893-94 (Classic Reprint)
- On fossil plants from the Similkameen Valley and other places in the southern interior of British Columbia
- Science education abroad: a lecture, being the annual University lecture of the session 1870-71, delivered in the William Molson Hall, Nov. 18, 1870