Career
He wrote
with James Wilson Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Foundation in Edinburgh (1834)
in William Jardine"s The Naturalist’s Library. Entomology, 7 volumes. (Year unknown)
Introduction to Entomology.: Comprehending a General View of the Metamorphoses, William Home Lizars, Samuel Highley, West. Curry, Junr.
& Company
662 pages. (1840).
with William Jardine.Bees: Comprehending the uses and economical management of the honey-bee of Britain and other countries, together with the known wild species. Edinburgh London, West.H. Lizars. Henry G. Bohn. 602 pages.
(1859).
James Duncan"s papers on Diptera appeared in the Magazine of Zoology and Botany ( 1, ii: 145-61.
Iv: 359-68; v: 453-6).