jan. — mar. 1858.] The late Dr. Slocks. 



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Dr. Stocks accordingly came to England on furlough, bringing 

 his collections with him, and made Kew his residence, and here 

 he had been busily engaged since the early 3pring, in comparing 

 them with authentic specimens in the Kew Herbarium, and pre- 

 paring them for publication. Unfortunately his constitution had 

 been undermined by his great labours in the unhealthy climate of 

 Scinde ; he was subject to intense neuralgie pains in the head and 

 neck, and a change of air and scene was deemed desirable. He 

 accordingly spent a few weeks with relations in the Isle of Man; 

 and on his way thence to Cottingham he caught a cold, which was 

 succeeded by fits of apoplexy which, in a very few days, terminated 

 fatally, on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 30th August. 



Dr. Stocks had brought to England materials, in a very forward 

 taste, for a general work on the Natural History, manners, cus- 

 toms, arts, manufactures and commerce, agriculture, &c, &c, of 

 Scinde, which it is yet hoped may be found worthy of publication. 

 Great talent and great research had been besto .red on it, and the 

 information it contains is much of the same nature as that of the 

 late Dr. Francis Buchanan Hamilton's History of the Mysore, but 

 possessing the further advantage of being written in a lively and 

 agreeable style, and rendered 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 could 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 page 550 of the same 

 volume, is a most lively and spirited letter, written during " a Bo- 



