Selected Writings
- Davy, John (1821). An Account of the Interior of Ceylon, and of Its Inhabitants: With Travels in that Island. London: Longman, Hunt, Rees, Orme, and Brown. http://books.google.com/?id=0BIPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=john+davy.
- Davy, John (1839). Researches, physiological and anatomical. London: Smith, Elder, and Company. http://books.google.com/?id=pIIEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=john+davy.
- Davy, John (1839-1840). The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy. Bristol: Thoemmes Press.- published in nine volumes
- Davy, John (1855). The Angler and His Friend: Or, Piscatory Colloquies and Fishing Excursions. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. http://books.google.com/?id=4Q1JAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=john+davy.
For Rees's Cyclopaedia he contributed articles about Chemistry, but the topics are not known.
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