‘made at Clapton. 237° 
August 1.— Fair day ; the different clouds continually 
presented themselves in various places ; much cumulostratus 
at night. Westerly wind. 
_ August 2.—Clouds and gentle showers early in the day 5 
when it cleared, much exmulus and cumulostratus ; cirri, 
small loose cirrocumuli, &c. in the evening. Westerly wind. 
August 3.—Cloudy and gentle shower early; a gale of 
wind and much confused cumulus and cumutostratus after- 
wards. Fair afternoon; in the evening a great deal of cu- 
mulosratus, flimsy transient cirrocumulus: the cumulo- 
Stratus in spread and dense masses above the sunset, and 
showing more and more of the veilow haze as it came up 
with the wind, with flocky scudlike cumudi sailing rapidly 
under, had a fanciful and pretty appearance; the wind 
blew a gentle gale from SW helow. 
August 4,--Gentle showers, with fair intervals, and fair 
afternoon ; all the nimbific processes and indeed all the 
4louds very low, 
August 5.—Clouded, and small rain in gentle showers 
early; various appearance of the modification during the 
clear intervals of the showers in the day; all the clouds, 
however were low in the atmosphere, and the rain was 
formed very near the earth. I noticed a beautiful contrast 
of colour in some-petroid and dense cumu/i in the eastern 
horizon ; at 7 P.M. some nearer me were deep brown; 
those behind pale blueish. Windy in gales, with star-light 
aud clouds by night; a common meteor, with inclined di- 
rection to the S, appeared in the E at about quarter past UL 
P.M. Wind westerly. 
August 6.—Rather windy, in gusts as usual, much cu- 
mulus and cumulostratus sometimes amounting to aimbus 
and pouring a shower ; transient irregular features of the 
other modifications at times. WNW. 
August 7.—Fair warm day; cumuli frequently became 
cumulostrati, to the formation of which cloud there seemed 
a disposition through the early part of the day : there were 
also light masses which Mr. Howard referred to cirrostratus ; 
which cloud sometimes appears in roundish though flat and. 
transpareut aggregates: a reddish blush all around at sun= 
set. Therm. at midnight 54°. Wind WNW. A very 
small falling star in the E shooting down towards the S. 
The owls hoot a good deal of Jate by night. 
August 8.—Cumulostratus through the morning, which 
was fair; a gentle shower of drops about 6 P.M., after 
which the modifications stretched along of indefinite cha- 
racter, Wind SW. The owls hoot by night. 
August 
