96 H. C. RUSSELL. 
ear. List of Droughts of the D Series. 
1895-6, drought in China about Honkong. (S.M. Herald.) 
1896, Jan. 8, South Africa, no harvest to speak of for three 
years, no grass, no water, and the rainy season over, so that 
there is no hope of rain until April or May. 
1876 Drought in West Indies, Guinea, Venezuela, Columbia, 
and Brazil. 
1878, United States, excessively high temperatures 90° to . 
110°; in Canada 90° to 103°, at Milwaukie 103 cases of 
sun stroke, at St. Louis 1,500 cases of sun stroke. 
Drought in India 1875-6-7, half a million of people died, 
Madras, Mysore, and parts of Bombay. ‘“ Madras, Oct. 17, 
1876, the state of Kurnool, Bellary, Cuddapah, North Arcot, 
and Chingleput districts, and also Mysore, is alarming, owing 
to the drought. In the Bombay Presidency six millions of 
people are threatened with famine by the failure of the 
monsoon rain. Relief cost £9,000,000. (Jour. Sci.) 
1878, great drought in Barbary. 
1876, severe drought in Spain. 
1876, drought in Samara, Eastern Russia. 
_ 1877, June 18, “China,” “Chihle,” and “Shantug” districts 
containing many millions of inhabitants, the harvest had 
failed for two years running, neither grain nor food were to 
be had at any price ; the whole country seems to have been 
scorched by a burning wind; people eat every bit of grass, 
or bark or leaves off trees that they could find, and to avoid 
death by starvation, committéd suicide. In Chefoo it is 
stated on good authority, that human flesh was actually 
offered for sale in the shops until prohibited by the mandarins. 
1877, in Southern California there was a total failure of 
crops, and millions of sheep died. 
1876 “Cape Colony, Australia, South Sea Islands, and it would 
appear almost every known portion of the Southern Hemi- 
sphere have been suffering from severe and. protracted 
drought. In Australia shade temperatures of 124° and 127° 
