Books
- Insects Mentioned in Shakespeare's Plays
- A Glossary of Words in Use in the Counties of Antrim and Down – a dialect study
- ''Zoology for Schools (1846–48).
- Ed.Volume 4 of William Thompson's Natural History of Ireland (1856).
Patterson also prepared, for the Department of Science and Art, a series of large coloured diagrams, illustrated by Joseph Wolf. These were widely used in schools in Britain, Ireland and the United States.
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