Author:Edwin Lankester

As author

 * Regular columns for the Daily News between 1840 and 1846, mostly on medical reform
 * An Account of Askern and Its Mineral Springs (1842) ex|https://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t4cn8b40t}}
 * Lectures on the Natural History of Plants Yielding Food (1845)
 * "Rotifera" in Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology (1847)
 * The Aquavivarium, Fresh and Marine: Being An Account of the Principles and Objects Involved in the Domestic Culture of Water Plants and Animals (1856)
 * "Sanitary Science", with William Lethaby, in Encyclopaedia Britannica (8th edition, 1859)
 * Half-Hours with the Microscope: Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Microscope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction (1859)
 * On Food (1861)
 * A School Manual of Health (1868); later editions titled Practical Physiology
 * A series of "Annual Reports", published from 1866 in the Journal of Social Science.
 * A series of "Annual Reports", published from 1866 in the Journal of Social Science.

As translator

 * Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Principles of Scientific Botany; or, Botany as an Inductive Science (1845)
 * Friedrich Küchenmeister, On Animal and Vegetable Parasites of the Human Body: A Manual of Their Natural History, Diagnosis, and Treatment (1857)

As editor

 * John Ray, Correspondence of John Ray (1848)
 * Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science; co-edited with George Busk (1853–1868), and with Edwin Ray Lankester (1868-1871)
 * William Macgillivray, Natural History of the Dee Side and Braemar (1855)
 * Natural history sections of the Penny Cyclopaedia and the English Cyclopaedia