- Biological atlas: a guide to the practical study of plants and animals (1881)
- Three kingdoms. A handbook of the Agassiz Association (1888)
- The microscope and its revelations (1901)
- A course of practical work in the chemistry of the garden, for teachers and students of horticulture gardening and rural science (1914)
- The home school (c1913)
- Home and school training (1884)
- The education of the child from one to three, prepared by the literary staff of the American institute of child life (1914)
- Household arts for home and school (1920)
- Suggestive courses of study in manual arts, mechanical drawing and household economics for Texas high schools (1911)
- Fourteen weeks in popular geology (c1877)
- Fourteen weeks in physics (1879)
- Answers to the Practical Questions and Problems Contained in the Fourteen Weeks' Courses: In ... (1870)
- Fourteen weeks in botany : being an illustrated flora (c1879)
- Fourteen weeks in zoology (1872)
- Fourteen weeks in chemistry (1874)
- Fourteen weeks in natural philosophy / by J. Dorman Steele (1869)
- Commercial organic analysis. A treatise on the properties, proximate analytical examination, and modes of assaying the various organic chemicals and products employed in the arts, manufactures, medicine, etc., with concise methods for the detection and determination of their impurities, adulterations, and products of decomposition (1898)