to 1744, excepting 1739, or from 17!):; to 1801, it is not at all 

 certain that such dry conditions did not exist at those times, 

 especially in view of the fact that in the next 57 years period 

 Mr. Danvers reports drought, and scarcity increasing to 

 drought with famine in 1853, 1851, 1850, 1857, 1858, 1850, 

 1860, 1861 and 1862. This drought appears to have com- 

 menced in 1852, gradually increasing in intensity until in 

 1859-60, "The Delhi Territory suffered greatly from want ..f 

 rain. The great Nujjufghur Jheel became entirely dry, <>. 

 Iking never before known with in the memory of men. The 

 rains of 1860 also completely failed in the country between 

 the Jumna and the Sutlej,and except where irrigation was 

 available, no autumn or spring crops could be sown." 



We have not yet heard of drought having commenced in 

 India, but as we have now entered upon a period in this 

 scries when the greatest intensity of drought may be looked 

 for, namely, from the present year, 1910 to 1916-17, it will, 

 therefore, be interesting to watch fordevelopments in India. 

 Earthquakes.— So much work has already been done by 

 many eminent men to determine whether periodicity could 

 be traced in the occurrence of earthquakes, and the result 

 of their investigations has been such as to lead one to 

 expect very little help in the endeavour to show some con- 

 nection between these phenomena and the changes in the 

 weather, that I must confess I thought it would be useless 

 for a layman to enter upon so great a question, when the 

 best equipped investigators had failed to arrive at any 

 satisfactory results. 



After I had plotted the Nile's curve, however, and had 

 discovered the critical points of change in it at 1736, 1782, 

 1839, 1896, and 1907, as already described, on comparing 

 those dates with a catalogue of earthquakes, I found that 

 at those critical points the greatest earthquakes occurred. 

 For instance, in 1906, 1907, the great earthquakes of San 



