David White is the author of Contributions to the Study of Coal (1908), 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.