Bibliography of Shorter Works by Richard Francis Burton

Complete facsimiles of over 200 of Burton's journal and magazine pieces are now available here.  In time all of Burton's known contributions to scholarly journals and newspapers will be made available.  As this is an extensive project material will be released as it becomes available.  If you can supply a missing item please contact the editor.  For fugitive works, see also the auction catalogues. 

Facsimiles of articles are linked into the bibliography below, which is based on the standard references by Norman Penzer An Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Francis Burton (1923), and James Casada  Sir Richard F. Burton: a Biobibliographical Study (1990); augmented by discoveries listed by Burke Casari in Alan Jutzi ed. In Search of Richard Burton (1993) and new finds by burtoniana.org.

Date

Title

Publication

Volume
1847 `Notes Relative to the Population of the Sind; and the Customs, Language, and Literature of the People’ Bombay Government Records New Series No. 17, Part 2, pp. 637-57.
1848 `Brief Notes Relative to the Division of Time, and Articles of Cultivation in Sind; to Which Are Appended Remarks on the Modes of Intoxication in That Province’ Bombay Government Records New Series No. 17, Part 2, pp. 613-36.
1849 `A Grammar of the Jataki or Belohcki Dialect’ Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. III, No. 12 (January, 1849), pp. 84-125.
1849 `Notes and Remarks on Dr Dorn's Chrestomathy of the Pushtu or Afghan Language’ Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Vol. III, No. 12 (January 1849), pp. 58-69.
1854 `Journey to Medina, with Route from Yamba’ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. XXIV (1854), pp. 208-25. 
1855 `A Journey from El-Medina to Mecca down the "Darb el Sharki" on the Eastern Road (Hitherto Unvisited by Europeans) in September 1853’ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. XXV (1855), pp. 121-36.
1855 `Narrative of a Trip to Harar’ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. XXV (1855), pp. 136-50.
1855 `Defence of the Bashi-Bazouks’ Times 6 December 1855. 
1856 `Central Asia’ Times 19 February, 1856.
1857 `Notes from the Journal of the East African Expedition, Under the Command of Capt Richard F. Burton’ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. II (1857-58), pp. 52-6; discussion pp. 56-8.
1858 `Zanzibar; and Two Months in East Africa’ Blackwood's Magazine Vol. LXXXIII (1858), pp. 200-24, 276-90, 572-89. 
1858 `A Coasting Voyage from Mombasa to the Pangani River; Visit to Sultan Kimwere; and Progress of the Expedition into the Interior’ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. XXVIII (1858), pp. 188-226.
1858 `Progress of the Expedition into the Interior’ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. XXVIII (1858), pp. 220-6. 
1858 `Explorations in Eastern Africa’ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. III (1858-59), pp. 348-52. 
1858 `Extracts from Reports by Captains Burton and Speke, of the East African Expedition, on Their Discovery of Lake Ujiji etc, in Central Africa’ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. III (1858-59), pp. 111-16; discussion on pp. 116-17.
1859 `Presentation of the Royal Awards’ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. III (1858-59), pp. 217-19.
1859 `Discussion' (on James Macqueen, `Portuguese Journeys in Central Africa') Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. III (1858-59), p. 363.
1859 `The Lake Regions of Central Equatorial Africa, with Notices of the Lunar Mountains and the Sources of the White Nile; Being the Results of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Patronage of Her Majesty's Government and the Royal Geographical Society of London, in the Years 1857-1859’ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. XXIX (1859), pp. 1-454. 
1859 `Dr Livingstone’ Times 8 October 1859.
1860 `Letter’ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. V (1860-61), pp. 1-2.
1860 `Letters on Dahomey’ Report of the African Aid Society 1st Report, July 1860 to 31 March 1862, pp. 24-38.
1861 `Account of the Ascent of the Camaroons Mountain, in Western Africa’ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. VI (1861-62), pp. 238-48.
1861 `Ascent of the Ogun, or Abbeokuta River’ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. VI (1861-62), pp. 49, 64-6. 
1861 `Letter from Capt. Richard Burton, F.R.G.S., H.M. Consul to Fernando Po, to Dr. Norton Shaw’ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. VI (1861-62), pp. 64-6. 
1861 `The Ethnological Society’ Times 8 July 1861.
1861 `Ethnological Notes on M. du Chaillu's Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa’ Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London New Series Vol. 1(1861), pp. 316-26. 
1862 Witnesses oaths R. C. Henry Lemnos Statement of the Outrage Committed upon an English Factory in Benin River. Liverpool: Lee Nightingale, 1862.
1862 'The Ivory Trade of Zanzibar' The Technologist Vol. II., pp. 225-8.
1862 `Ascent of the Cameroon Mountains’ [title only] Report of the British Association for 1862 p. 195.
1862 `The Great Gorilla Controversy’ Times 23 December 1862. 
1862 `Transportation’ Times 31 December 1862.
1863 `A Day amongst the Fans’ Anthropological Review Vol. 1(1863), pp. 43-54.
1863 `My Wanderings in West Africa: A Visit to the Renowned Cities of Wari and Benin’ Fraser's Magazine Vol. LXVII (1863), pp. 135-57, 273-89, 407-22.
1863 `An Exploration of the Elephant Mountain in Western Equatorial Africa’ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society XXXIII (1863), pp. 241-50.
1863 Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in Foreign Countries, and with Foreign Ministers in England, Relative to the Slave Trade.  London: Harrison & Sons 1863. Accounts and Papers, Vol. XLIII for 1863, Vol. LXXI in the overall series for that year. pp. xv, 316.
1863 `Notes on Certain Matters Connected with the Dahoman’ Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London Vol. I (1863-64), pp.308-21.
1863 'Camaroon Island for Convicts’ Times 5 January 1863.
1863 `Penal Transportation’ Times 9 January 1863.
1863 `Penal Transportation’ Times 27 January 1863.
1864 `Notes on Scalping’ Anthropological Review Vol. II (1864), pp. 49-52.
1864 `Notes on Waitz's Anthropology’ Anthropological Review Vol. II (1864), pp. 233-50.
1864 `On Skulls from Annabom, in the West African Seas’ Anthropological Review Vol. II (1864), p. ccxxx.
1864 `The African Mystery’ Athenaeum 19 March 1864, pp. 407-8.
1864 `The Nile Mystery’ Athenaeum 24 December 1864, pp. 861-2.
1864 Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in Foreign Countries, and with Foreign Ministers in England, Relating to the Slave Trade.  London: Harrison & Sons 1864. Accounts and Papers, Vol. XXXV for 1864, Vol. LXVI in the overall series for that year.  
1864 `Lake Tanganyika, Ptolemy's Western Lake-Reservoir of the Nile’ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. IX (1864-65), pp. 6-8.
1864 `On the Present State of Dahome’ Report of the British Association for 1864 pp. 137-9.
1864 `On the River Congo’ Report of the British Association for 1864 p. 140.
1864 `The African Climate’ Times 16 June 1864.
1864 `The Kames Mills’ Times 22 November 1864. 
1864 `The Nile Sources’ Times 23 September 1864.
1865 `The Nile Mystery’ Athenaeum 14 January 1865, p. 53. 
1865 `From London to Rio de Janeiro: Letters to a Friend’ Fraser's Magazine Vol. LXXII (1865) pp. 492-503; Vol. LXXIII (1866), pp. 78-92, 496-510; Vol. LXXIV (1866), pp. 159-78. 
1865 `Discussion' (on H. B. Owen, `Missionary Successes and Negro Converts') Journal of the Anthropological Society of London Vol. III (1865), pp. cciv-xi.
1865 `Discussion' (on S. Laing, `Some Ancient Shell-Mounds and Graves in Caithness'),  Journal of the Anthropological Society of London Vol. III (1865), pp. iv-vi. [?]
1865 Discussion of 'Notes on the Dahomans' Journal of the Anthropological Society of London Vol. III (1865), pp. vi - xi.
1865 `Discussion' (on W. Winwood Reade, `Efforts of Missionaries Among Savages') Journal of the Anthropological Society of London Vol. III (1865), pp. clxix-xv, clxxix, clxxxi.
1865 `Letter’ Journal of the Anthropological Society of London Vol. III (1865), pp. ccxc-ccxcii.
1865 `Reference' (to Carl Vogt, Lectures on Man) Journal of the Anthropological Society of London Vol. III (1865), p. lxxiv.
1865 `On Lake Tanganyika, Ptolemy's Western Lake-Reservoir of the Nile’ Journal of the Royal Geographical Society Vol. XXXV (1865), pp. 1-15.
1865 Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in Foreign Countries, and with Foreign Ministers in England, Relating to the Slave Trade.  London: Harrison & Sons 1865. Accounts and Papers, Vol. XXVII for 1865, Vol. LVI in the overall series for that year. pp. xiv-, 319.
1865 `Notes on an Hermaphrodite’ Memoirs Read Before the Anthropological Society of London Vol. II (1865-66), pp. 262-3.
1865 Evidence in Report from the Select Committee on Africa (Western Coast); Together with the Proceedings of the committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix. Reports from Committees Vol. I for 1865, Vol. V in the overall series for that year.
1865 `A Day amongst the Fans’ Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London New Series Vol. III (1865), pp. 36-47.
1865 `The Present State of Dahome’ Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London New Series Vol. III (1865), pp. 400-8.
1866 `A Volcano in Southern Brazil’ Appendix J in James C. Fletcher and D. P. Kidder, Brazil and the Brazilians Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches (Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., 1866, 6th ed.) p. 633.
1866 `Letter on a Kjokkenmodding at Santos, Brazil’ Journal of the Anthropological Society of London Vol. IV (1866), pp. cxcii-cxciv.
1867 `African Discovery’ Athenaeum 27 July 1867, p. 115. 
1868 `Letter’ Anthropological Review Vol. VI (1868), pp. 56-7. 
1868 'Vikram and the Vampire; Or, Tales of Indian Devilry’ Fraser's Magazine