'Observations on mental fatigue and recovery', paper read before the Medico-Psychol. Soc. G.B & I. (Abstract in Lancet, 74, p. 711)
On mental fatigue and recovery (Journal of Mental Science, 42, pp. 525–9)
Über Ermüdung und Erholung, with E. Kräpelin (Psychol. Arbeit, 1, pp. 627–78)
1897
The photometry of coloured paper (Journal of Physiology, 22, pp. 137–45)
1899
Contributions to comparative psychology from the Torres Straits and New Guinea (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1899, p. 486, and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, New Series, 2, pp. 219–222) (With W. McDougall and C.S Myers)
Two new departures in anthropological method (Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, pp. 789–90)
1900
The senses of primitive man (Abstract in Science, New Series, 11, pp. 740–1, and trans. 'Über die Sinne d. primitiven Menschen'in Umschau, 25)
'Textbook of physiology', 6th ed. revd., Part IV., 'The Senses', by Sir M. Foster assisted by W. H. R. Rivers
Article on 'Vision', in Schäfer's 'Text-book of physiology'
A genealogical method of collecting social and vital statistics (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 30, pp. 74–82)
Report of Committee on mental and physical deviations from the normal among children in... schools (with others). (Rep. Brit. Ass., 1900, pp. 461–6)
1901
The measurement of visual illusion (Rep. Brit. Ass., 1901, p. 818)
Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Vol. II., Physiology and Psychology, pt. I., Introductory, and Visin, pp. vi., 140. Cambridge
On erythropsia (Trans. Ophthal. Soc. Lond., XXI., pp. 296–305)
Primitive orientation (Folk-Lore, XII., pp. 210–12)
The colour vision of the Eskimo (Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc., XI., pp. 143–9)
Primitive colour vision R. Inst. Lect. (Pop. Sci. Mthly., LIX., pp. 44–58)
Review of W.A. Nagel's 'Farbensinn d. Tiere' (Brain, XXIV., pp. 663–4)
Review of A. Lehmann's 'Körperliche Äusserungen psychischer Zustände' (Mind, N.S., X., pp. 402–4)
The colour vision of the natives of Upper Egypt (J.A.I., XXXI., pp. 229–47)
Colour vision: reviews of Holden and Bosse's 'The order of development of colour perception and of colour preference in the child' (Man, I., pp. 107–9)
On the functions of the son-in-law and brother-in-law in Torres Straits (Man, Vol. 1, 1901, p. 172)
1902
Report of Committee on pigmentation survey of the schoolchildren of Scotland (with others) (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1902, pp. 352–3; 1903, p. 415)
Note on the sister's son in Samoa (Folk-Lore, XIII., p. 199)
1903
Observations on the vision of the Uralis and Sholagas (Madras Govt. Mus. Bull., V., pp. 1–16)
Toda Kinship and Marriage; the Toda dairy (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1903, PP. 810–12)
The psychology and sociology of the Todas and the tribes of Southern India (Rep. Brit. Assoc., LXXIII., pp. 415–16)
The funeral of Sunerani (Eagle, XXIV., pp. 337–43)
1904
Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Vol. V: Genealogical tables; Kinship; Totemism (with A.C Haddon); The regulation of marriage; Personal names
Note on R. C. Punnett's 'On the proportion of the sexes among the Todas' (Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc., XII., pp. 487–8)
Toda prayer (Folk-Lore, XV., pp. 166–81)
Some funeral customs of the Todas; On the senses of the Todas *Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1904, PP. 726, 749-50)
Investigations of the comparative visual acuity of savages and of civilised people (Br. Med. J., 1904, II., p. 1297)
'Acuité visuelle des peuples civillisées et des sauvages' (Ann. d'Oeul., CXXXII., pp. 455- )
1905
Observations on the senses of the Todas (Br. J. Psychol., I., pp. 321–96)
The afferent nervous system from a new aspect; with H. Head and J. Sherren (Brain, XXVIII., pp. 99–115)
On the origin of the classificatory system of relationships (Anthrop. Essays pres. to E.B Taylor, pp. 309–23. Oxford)
Report of Committee on anthropometric investigation in the British Isles (with others) (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1907, pp. 354–68)
Morgan's Malayan system of relationship; Some sociological definitions (Rep. Brit. Assoc., LXXVII., p. 640, and pp. 653–5)
Review of C.F Jayne's 'String Figures' (Folk-Lore, XVIII., pp. 112–16)
1908
Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Vol. VI (Eastern Islanders): Genealogies; Kinship; Personal names; The regulation of marriage; Social organisation
The illusion of compared horizontal and vertical lines (with G.D. Hicks), and The influence of small doses of alcohol on the capacity for muscular work (with H.N. Webber) (Br. J. Psychol., II., pp. 252–5)
1909
Review of B. Thomson's 'The Fijians' (Folk-Lore, XX., pp. 252–5)
'Some notes on magical practices in the Banks' Islands,' a paper read before the Folklore Soc. (Folk-Lore, XXI., p. 2)
Totemism in Polynesia and Melanesia (J.R.A.I, XXXIX., pp. 156–80)
1910
The genealogical method of anthropological inquiry (Sociol. Review, III, pp. 1–12)
French translation of the above (Rev. d'Ethnogr. & de Sociol., Paris)
The father's sister in Oceania (Folk-Lore, XXI., pp. 42–59)
Report of Committee on establishment of a system of measuring mental characters (with others) (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1910, p. 267)
Kava-drinking in Melanesia (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1910, p. 734)
The Solomon Island basket (with Mrs. A. H. Quiggin) (Man, X., pp. 161–3)
1911
The ethnological analysis of culture (Pres. Address to Section H. Brit. Assoc.) (Science, XXXIV., pp. 385–97; Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1911, pp. 490–9; Nature, LXXXVII., p. 356)
Report of Committee on mental and physical factors involved in education (with others) (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1911, pp. 177–214; 1912, pp. 327–38; 1913, pp. 302–5)
1912
Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, Vol. IV. Astronomy
The disappearance of useful arts (Rep. Brit. Assoc., 1912, pp. 598–9)