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- ↑ Ray Desmond. Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturalists.
- ↑ "Catalogue description Lieutenant Matthew Young ORR. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment)" – via National Archive of the UK.
- ↑ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0 902 198 84 X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 November 2017.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index. Orr.
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