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THE paper on this subject, noted below, a copy of which we have just received, will no doubt awaken much interest, not only on account of its scientific bearings but also from its bearings on so very practical a subject as the famines of India. It is most gratifying to see that the subject has been taken up by one who gives evidence on every page of rare capacity as a scientific statistician. There is throughout an absence of straining the facts before him beyond what they may legitimately bear, and a skill in combining them so as to eliminate, as far as possible, what is merely accidental from the results ultimately arrived at in their relation to the sun-spot period.
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Droughts and Famines in Southern India 1 . Nature 16, 14 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016014a0
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