Gordon Elliott is the author of On Commutators in Certain Lie Algebras (1963), The Growth of Plants. With Twenty-four Plates and Fifty-three Text Figures (1963), Cell Differentiation: Symposium Held in Edinburgh, 3-8 September, 1962 (1963), The World of the Smallest Plants (1962), The World of the Smallest Plants ... An Inaugural Lecture Delivered at Westfield College 6th February 1962, Etc (1962).