Charles Burns is the author of The Ecology of Abies Pindrow in the North-west Himalaya (1984), Differentiation of Biochemically Similar Bacteria by Gas-liquid Chromatography (1982), The Study of Bonding in Silicon Compounds by Fenske-Hall Molecular Orbital Calculations and Photoelectron Spectroscopy (1979), The Density Dependence of the Refractivity of Gases (1978), Some Aspects of Alcohol Use and Human Nutrition with Special Reference to the Acute Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome (1977).