made at Camlridge, 3 If 



Towards evening the cirri, 8cc. aloft were lost, and cmnu- 

 losiralus covered the sky. Therm, al 3| P.M. 65^ at II 

 P.M. 33°. There was a strong electric smell at night like 

 the smell after showers have fallen on dry ground in sum- 

 mer. 



March 29.— Much cloud. Therm. 60^ at 2 P.M. at 

 11 P.M. 54°. 



March 30. — Clouds and rainy in the morning ; it held 

 up ill the afternoon. Thermometer 11 P.M. 43**. Wind 

 vvesterly. 



March 3\. — Clouded morning; when it cleared, large 

 cumuli and ciimulos trail, and cirri of different shapes scat- 

 tered above, of the raiu-bearmg kind. Therm. U P.M. 



44°. 



Jpril 1.— Clouded morning, with small ram; fair to- 

 warils evening J cirrus, he. Therm. 11 P.M. SZ"", and 

 starlight. 



^pril 2. — Cloudy, then fair ; cirrus in a state of fusion 

 above large cum?di, &c. Therm, at 11 P.M. 34°. 



Jpril 3. — Cold wind and slight showers of snow, which 

 did not lay on the ground; in the intervals it was fine ; tlie 

 cumuli were very rocklike and tuberculated in the middle 

 of the day, with cirrus above, and scud flying along below 

 them ; some of the latter passing rapidly along in the 

 wind in the evening, was in such a state of fusion that 

 jt looked like loose and light-coloured smoke. For several 

 days past the wind has been southerly, and to some electric 

 peculiarity is probably owing the low temperature of the 

 air with a wind from that quarter. Clear cold night. 

 Therm, at midnight 34**. 



ylpril 4. — Clear, and ciimuli through the day ; at night, 

 some flimsy large features of cirrocumulus, &c. and a hurry 

 jnoon. Thermometer 31° at 4 P.M., at 11 38-. Wind 

 southerly. 



April 5. — Small rain and warmer, 



April 6. — Small rain and warmer still j fine evening, but 

 clouded over. Therm, at night Acf. 



April "J. — Fair day, aud tolerably warm; various clouds. 



Aprils. — Fair, with cumuli and dm, and very warm. 



By night a halo appeared about the mOon, with a nearly 



clear sky, that is, no visible definite cloud. Thermometer 



llP.M. 32^ Winds. 



Corpui Chrlsti College, Cambridge, ThOMAS FoRSTBR. 



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