ECONOMIC BOTANY OF SCINDE. 539 
territory coming under British rule, as we hope it will, there will 
be an uninterrupted tract of hill land in our possession, from the 
Jumna to the Kalee, in Kumaon, with the snowy range as a 
boundary to the north. It will be seen in the orders published 
this day, that Lieut. Strachey of the Engineers, brother we believe 
of the distinguished officer attached to the Thibet mission, has 
been placed at the disposal of the Lieut.-Governor for special duty 
in Kumaon. Lieut. Strachey is to make a physico-geographical 
survey of that province, and will be assisted in this important 
work by a number of naturalists, particularly those who have 
studied the productions of the N. W.; among them, we believe, 
are Majors Cautley and Madden, Messrs. Batten, Ramsay, Falconer, 
Jameson, and M. P. Edgeworth. To illustrate the survey, a series 
of maps, showing the distribution of plants and animals, will be 
appended ; also sections showing the geological structure of the 
Himalayas, of which little is at present really known, from their 
their base to Thibet. 
Botany (chiefly Economic) of Sons; by J. E. Stocks, Ese., M.D. 
Assistant Surgeon, H.E.I.C.S. 
(Among the most valued of my botanical correspondents I am 
proud to number Dr. Stocks, of the Hon. the E. I. C. Service, and 
Vaccinator at Scinde. His leisure time has been for a long while 
devoted to the study of the Vegetable productions of Scinde, a 
country peculiarly favorably situated for obtaining information re- 
lative to such Gums and Drugs, and other specimens of the Materia 
medica as are sent to Europe by way of the Persian gulph and 
Bombay. One interesting notice of Scinde Botany, from the pen 
of the same gentleman, has already appeared at p. 30, of the 
suppl. to the 73rd volume of the Botanical Magazine (1847): and 
now I am sure my readers will derive pleasure and information 
from Mr. Stocks’ catalogue of objects, almost entirely of vegetable 
origin, which he has most liberally sent for the Museum of the 
Royal gardens of Kew. 
Nos. I., IL, I11.—Bits of Seinde Counterpanes; they are sold 
double, and wadded with cotton wool, and very comfortable in the v 
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