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as a British plant on Rosehaugh, in the Black Isle, near 

 Inverness. His name occurs as early as 1827, in Jameson's 

 u Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal," as an authority on 

 the plants of the North of Scotland. 



Dr. Gordon, in 1839, published the results of his labours 

 in the " Collectanea to the Flora of Moray," a work the value 

 of which has been heartily recognised by H. C. Watson in 



his great " Topographical Botany." Mr. Watson states 

 further that he had had the advantage of a copy of the " Col- 

 lectanea " checked at a later date by Dr. Gordon, and also 

 of a catalogue of British plants checked by him for the county 

 of Ross in 1834 ; and he adds : " Without the valued assist- 

 ance of Dr. Gordon, with his friend and fellow-worker in 

 Natural Science, Mr. W. A. Stables, my own writings would 

 have been sadly deficient in the botany of Moray and Ross." 

 He gave much attention to the archaeology of Morayshire, 



