P. A. Wayman:Rev. John Brinkley and Sir James South. In: Irish Astronomical Journal. Band17, Nr.3, 1986, S.378–382, bibcode:1986IrAJ...17..378W (englisch).
James South:Experiments, Made at Watford, on the Vibrations Occasioned by Railway Trains Passing through a Tunnel. In: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Band13, 1836, S.65–83, bibcode:1863RSPS...13...65S (englisch).
articles.adsabs.harvard.edu
J. C.:Sir James South. In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Band28, 1867, S.69–72 (englisch, harvard.edu).
Kevin A. P. Walsh:James South: dedicated but difficult. In: Astronomy & Geophysics. Band58, Nr.3, Juni 2017, S.37–39, doi:10.1093/astrogeo/atx106 (englisch).
John Frederick William Herschel, James South:Observations of the Apparent Distances and Positions of 380 Double and Triple Stars, Made in the Years 1821, 1822, and 1823, and Compared with Those of Other Astronomers; Together with an Account of Such Changes as Appear to Have Taken Place in Them Since Their First Discovery. Also a Description of a Five-Feet Equatorial Instrument Employed in the Observations. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Band114, 1824, S.1–412, JSTOR:107730 (englisch).
James South:On the Extensive Atmosphere of Mars. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Band123, 1833, S.15–17, JSTOR:107983 (englisch).
C. D. Waterston, A. Macmillan Shearer:Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 1883–2002, Biographical Index Part Two. Hrsg.: Royal Society of Edinburgh. Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 0-90219884-X, S.870 (englisch, org.uk[PDF]).
