David white is the author of Fossil Flora of the Coal Measures of Brazil (1908), Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Upper Carboniferous Rocks of the Kansas Section (1903), The Stratigraphic Succession of the Fossil Floras of the Pottsville Formation in the Southern Anthracite Coal Field, Pennsylvania, Fossil Flora of the Lower Coal Measures of Missouri, Flora of the Outlying Carboniferous Basins of Southwestern Missouri.