. Moray and Nairn. nocb on the WaverleyNovels. His two best books are Scottish Rivers and TheMoray Floods. The naturalist and sportsman, Charles St John, whodied in 1856, was a great admirer of Morayshire. HisNatural History and Sport in Moray is known to almostevery lover of Nature. Dr George Gordon was also akeen naturalist. Born in Urquhart in the year 1801,Gordon became minister of Birnie in 1832, a chargewhich he held for fifty-seven years. He had an intimateknowledge of the botany, zoology, geology, and archae-ology of his native county. He numbered among hisfriends most of the great sci
. Moray and Nairn. nocb on the WaverleyNovels. His two best books are Scottish Rivers and TheMoray Floods. The naturalist and sportsman, Charles St John, whodied in 1856, was a great admirer of Morayshire. HisNatural History and Sport in Moray is known to almostevery lover of Nature. Dr George Gordon was also akeen naturalist. Born in Urquhart in the year 1801,Gordon became minister of Birnie in 1832, a chargewhich he held for fifty-seven years. He had an intimateknowledge of the botany, zoology, geology, and archae-ology of his native county. He numbered among hisfriends most of the great scientists of last century—Darwin,Agassiz, Geikie, Huxley, Hooker. Huxley called one ofhis most wonderful fossil discoveries Hyperodapedon Gordoni. In William Marshall of Keithmore, born at Fochabersin 1748, the county produced a musician whom Burns 86 MORAYSHIRE pronounced the first composer of Strathspeys of theage. He wrote over 100 strathspeys and a great numberof reels. Burns thought so1 highly of ?Miss Admiral. William Marshall Gordons Strathspey that he composed his well-knownsons Of a the airts to suit the music. The county has produced many travellers of dis-tinction, the best known being Gordon dimming of ROLL OF HONOUR 87 Altyre. Born in 1820, dimming at the early ageof twenty-three set out from Grahamstown for thehitherto very imperfectly explored region of Bechuana-land, where antelopes, buffaloes, lions, zebras, giraffesand numerous other varieties of animals fell to his on this expedition he met Dr Livingstone. Lateron when the exploits of Gordon Cumming, the LionHunter, were called in question, Livingstone testified tothe correctness of his friends narrative. After five yearsof South African travel Cumming returned home, bringingwith him hundreds of trophies of the chase. An exhibitof some of these was one of the principal sights of theLondon Exhibition of 1851. By his volume entitledFive Tears of a Hunters Life in the Far Interior of SouthAfrica, Cummi
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