John Ellerton Stocks

John Ellerton Stocks M.D., F.L.S (1822–1854), was a native of Cottingham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England,[1] who distinguished himself as a botanist in India. The standard author abbreviation Stocks is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

India

He joined the Bombay Medical Staff in the 1840s.[1] For most part of his service, he was posted in Sind.

Sind

While in Sindh he served as vaccinator and inspector of drugs.[1]

gollark: I don't think Switchcraft is doing anything hugely special except for being more popular and fairly consistently up.
gollark: My iGPU's Gen9, which doesn't suffer a horrible performance hit, but *really Intel*?!
gollark: Apparently Intel somehow even managed to muck up security of their iGPUs. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-gen7-hit&num=1
gollark: I'm going to make sure to, er, pay attention to handling uploads then. It's somewhat annoying from an ease of use perspective that it stores to files by default, but it does make sense for performance.
gollark: I can't see any obvious ones. The session is presumably encrypted, this will be running over HTTPS, maybe I could swap out SHA256 for an actual password hashing function though.

References
  1. "Obituary - Dr. Stocks F.L.S." The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review: 401. July 1854.
  2. IPNI.  Stocks.

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