Il est le premier à avoir décrit la Talève d'Allen, un oiseau aquatique (1842).
Publications
A narrative of the expedition sent by Her Majesty's government to the river Niger, in 1841, under the command of Capt. H. D. Trotter, R.N., 2 vols., avec William Allen, 1848.
« The Bubis, or Edeeyah of Fernando Po », in The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, vol. 44, , p. 232-244
The Brazilian slave trade and its remedy shewing the futility of repressive force measures, also, how Africa and our West Indian colonies may be mutually benefited, John Mylrea, 1850
« Observations on the Reported Incompetency of the Gins or Aboriginal Females of New Holland, to Procreate with a Native Male after Having Borne Half-Caste Children to a European or White », in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London (1848–1856), vol. 3, 1854, p. 243–246.
Bibliographie
Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson, The Eponym Dictionary of Birds, 2014 (Lire en ligne)