Backhouse est notamment l’auteur de Extracts from Letters... 1838-1841. Narrative of Visit to Australian Colonies (1843), Narrative of Visit to Mauritius and South Africa (1844), "Indigenous Plants of Van Diemen’s Land" (dans le Ross’s Hobart Town Almanck and Van Diemen’s Land Annual 1835). Sir William Jackson Hooker et William Henry Harvey (1811-1866) lui dédie le genreBackhousia.
Ray Desmond (1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists including Plant Collectors, Flower Painters and Garden Designers. Taylor & Francis et The Natural History Museum (Londres). (ISBN0-85066-843-3)
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