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Manufactures and Commerce^ Agriculture, etc, etc., of Scinde^ which it 

 is yet hoped may be found worthy of publication. Great talent and 

 great research had been bestowed on it; and the information it con- 

 tains is much of the same nature as that of the late Dr. Francis Bu- 

 chanan Hamilton's History of the ]\Iysore, but possessing the further 

 advantaoje of being written in a livelv and aCTeeable stvle, and ren- 



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dered doubly valuable from the amount of scientific knowledge of the 

 highest stamp brought to bear upon it. Few men of his years were more 

 extensively read in all subjects connected with the improvement of 

 India, than Dr. Stocks. In that country his death will be much felt ; 

 and sure we are that to his personal friends the loss is irreparable, for 

 he possessed a most kind and amiable disposition. 



Like Mr, Winterbottom, Dr. Stocks was more gratified by being 

 useful to others than in coming forward as an author; and it was only 

 by the urgent entreaty of his friends that he coidd be induced to appear 

 in that capacity. Most, if not all, that has yet been printed from his 

 pen, we have been privileged to publish in our Botanical Journals. In 

 the 'London Journal of Botany/ vol. vii. p. 539, will be found some 

 Notes on the Botany (chiefly economic) of Scinde, describing some of 

 the numerous vegetable products he had presented to the Museum at 

 Kew. At p. 550 of the same volume, is a most lively and spirited 

 letter, written during "a botanical excursion to Shah Bilawul, in Be- 

 loochistan." In the present Journal or ' Kew Garden Miscellany/ vol. i. 

 p, 257, is an excellent Memoir on two Balsam-trees {Bahamodendron) 

 of Scinde, B. Mukul and B.pudescens, with two plates. In vol. ii. p- 

 303, will be found an excellent general sketch of the Botany of Beloo- 

 chistan, written after a second journey into that country. In vol. iii. 

 are descriptions and figures of two new plants of Scinde. Vol. iv. 

 contains descriptions of thirty-seven Beloochistan plants, chiefly new 

 species. His last communication will be seen at p. 314 of the same 

 volume: ** Notes on the Botany and the Government Gardens of 

 Bombay/' 



8. PHILIP BAKKER WEBB, ESQ., of Milford House, Surrey. 



Only the day after the intelligence reached us of the demise of Dr 



Stocks, a letter was received by Dr. Hooker, from M. J, Gay of Paris, 



dated September 1, 1854, announcing the death there of Mr. Webb; a 

 Botanist, indeed, more advanced in years, but whose death was equally 



