58 THE LIFE AND WORK OF GEORGE DON. 
Dupplin, in the late part of the year 1779, he discovered a very 
small species of moss, which in 1806 was figured in English 
Botany,! and described by Sir James E. Smith, in English Botany 
t. 1582, as Gymnostomum Donnianum, and which is now known 
as Anodus Donianus. As showing how keen his memory was, 
we may cite the statement he makes with regard to this moss in 
1806,! “that he had not been able to visit the spot so late in 
the year (as it is in fruit in December), but that on his return 
from visiting Ben Lawers in 1804 (twenty-five years after his 
discovery of it), he ‘pointed out the rock on which it grew to 
his friends, the Millers, and desired that pieces of the rock might 
be sent him at various seasons,’ and thus he was enabled to 
supply the fruiting specimens for his ‘Herbarium Britannicum.’” 
The moss is extremely small, and probably no trace of it was 
visible in the autumn when he pointed out the locality to his 
friends. When he was at Dupplin he also discovered the 
leopard’s-bane, Doronicum Pardalianches, which still occurs in 
the original locality. During his residence at Dupplin, on one 
of his botanical rambles he met Caroline Stewart, related to 
the Oliphants of Gask, and, helping her with the load she 
carried, began an acquaintance with the active, energetic woman 
to whom he is said to have been married in 1789.? 
for the Botany class. Probably this was about the time when the College 
Botanic Garden, which had an area of almost three roods, was discontinued. 
The allowance of £20 for plants was continued to Jeffray till 1815. In 1816 
the Faculty agreed to Jeffray appointing Robert Graham (M.D. Edin. 1808) 
to teach the Botany class, the allowance for plants being voted to Jeffray. 
In 1817 the Faculty renewed their consent to Jeffray’s employing Graham to 
teach Botany, and this time the allowance of £20 was made to Graham. 
In 1817 the Faculty agreed to subscribe £2000 for the Royal Botanic 
Garden, and next year Graham was made regius Professor of Botany. 
“The lectureship on Botany as held by Brown and Graham was not on the 
same footing as the lectureships on Chemistry, Materia Medica, and Mid- 
wifery. The lecturers on these three subjects were appointed directly by the 
University authorities, and each had a salary from the University. The 
lecturer on Botany was the nominee of the Professor of Anatomy and 
Botany, and though his appointment was sanctioned by the academic 
authorities, he had no salary from them.”—/, 2, 2, 
* Don. Herb. Brit., No. 145. See p. 168 of these “ Notes.” 
* “ Genealogy of the Don Family.” By Surgeon-General Don. London, 
1897. It is also there stated that the eldest child was born in 1794. 
