Stocks is ashamed of having asked Hooker particulars about seven different plants. He sends drawings belonging to the Scinde [Sindh] Balsamodendron. He sent them last April, but the parcel must have miscarried. Stocks should like to have it printed in the JOURNAL OF BOTANY. He adds a few errata and sends a list of all the plants he has observed in Scinde: around 400 [not attached]. His numbers run from 1 to 680. Those up to 369 were found in Guzerat [Gujarat] in early 1845. The breaks indicate where he had initially included cultivated plants, now omitted. If a fortnight's rain would fall this June, he could add over 100 plants, but the country is 'awful' when dry; there has been no rain, proper, in Scinde since June 1846 when he was engaged with Cholera in the Regiment. Stocks asks Hooker to assure Mr Wilson that he will look for mosses if he gets on the hills, but he fears none are to be found. He is glad Thompson is safe. The Kashmeer [Kashmir] man has not taken against them, but his fidelity was much doubted. Dr [Joseph] Hooker must be enjoying himself in one of the finest fields in India. Dr Gibson is in raptures over the southern Mahratta country. Stocks thanks Hooker for naming a plant after him. Wight, in the last number of his ICONES, calls a plant 'Ellertonia' after him, fearing 'Stocksia' might be confounded with 'Stokesia'. Stocks explains why he would like Dr Gibson to be honoured with a plant name. It was also due to Gibson that Government began lately to pay attention to the Teak forests in Malabar and the Deccan. When Hooker publishes Stocks' Scinde plants in his ICONES he would like a few copies to send to friends. Stocks is sorry Planchon has left RBG Kew. He will send specimens for the Kew museum if he can. His new appointment in the forests is in addition to his vaccinating duties, a combination not unpleasant when pay is considered, but rather restraining his motions, especially in spring. Pages 1 and 4 of 10.