James Frederick Ferrier  
   Article by Phillip Ferreira, from the Thoemmes Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Philosophers. Biography and a summation of this idealist's metaphysics.
   http://www.thoemmes.com/404.asp?404;http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/ferrier.htm

Introduction to The Philosophical Works of James Frederick Ferrier  
   Extensively footnoted essay by John Hamilton.
   http://www.thoemmes.com/idealism/ferrier_intro.htm

Ferrier's "Institutes of Metaphysic"  
   Section on this absolute idealist's key work, from the Cambridge History of English and American Literature.
   http://www.bartleby.com/224/0130.html

Ferrier's Institutes of Metaphysic  
   Paper proposal by Jenny Keefe, which briefly summarizes Ferrier's thought.
   http://www.societies.stir.ac.uk/sppa/conferences/Jenny%20Keefe.htm