HENRY STORKS EATON, M.A. 



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reading was 90 on the 6th of July, 1852, at 2.30 p.m. ; the lowest 12 F. on 

 14th March, 1845. 



Another gives hourly readings of the dry and wet-bulb thermometers on 

 August 1st, 1856, from 6 a.m. till 10 p.m. and on the 2nd from 5 a.m. till 10 p.m. 

 (with readings at 4.40 a.m. of the minimum thermometer and barometer), and on 

 the 3rd August from 4 a.m. till 1 p.m. To the right of these figures are noted 

 the forms of clouds interspersed with barometrical readings and the direction of 

 the wind. Similar hourly observations of a single thermometer extend from 

 3 a.m. till 11.30 p.m, on the 24th July, 1854, 3.30, 4.30, and 6 a.m. till 11 p.m. 

 on the 25th, and from 2 a.m. till 1 p.m., and then 1.15, 1.45, 2.30, and 3 p.m. 

 until 9 p.m. on the 26th July, 1854, on which days were thunderstorms. 



The first appearance of cloud nomenclature in the diary is at the close of the 

 entry of the 4th of July, 1852 : " There are one or two clouds creeping up from 

 the S.E. that seem to indicate thunder; they are of the cirro-cumulus formation." 

 On the 6th of July, describing a thunderstorm, he notes : " The lightning 

 towards the E. and S.E. was peculiarly brilliant, and the forked lightning at 

 9 p.m. was very distinctly delineated. ... It was of six colours yellow, 

 red, blue, white, green, and pink the white and blue predominating." 



Whilst at Cambridge he rowed in the 2nd Trinity Eight. He dabbled a little 

 in chemistry, attended courses of science lectures on Geology by Prof. Adam 

 Sedgwick and on Botany by Prof. George Henslow. Finding a rare species of 

 garlic (Allium ampeloprasum, var. Habingtonii,) at East Bexington Farm, Abbots- 

 bury, where it gave trouble to the dairyman, he sent some heads of it in a packet 

 to Dr. Arnott, then Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow. A 

 letter of thanks was returned, but, the nature of the parcel being betrayed by the 

 smell, the Professor was promptly fined four shillings by the Post Office officials 

 for having vegetables forwarded to him by mail contrary to the regulations. 



From 1861-63 he was assistant to Mr. Nathaniel Beardmore, a celebrated 

 hydraulic engineer, and collected a large number of statistics on rainfall and 

 evaporation, which formed Part iv. of Beardmore's Manual of Hydrology, 1862. 



For many years from 1864 he was librarian to the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers, Westminster, and Editor of their Transactions and conductor of 

 parties of their students visiting eHgineering works, &c. This post he resigned 

 on reaching the age of 60, finding the weight of years beginning to tell upon him, 

 and the Council conferred on him a retiring pension, creating a precedent. He 

 hesitated to accept it. "It is not a question of your needing a pension," said 

 the President, " but of what we ought to do." 



Mr. Eaton was elected a Member of the British (now the 

 Royal) Meteorological Society in 1857, and from the first took a 

 great interest in its welfare, and was a regular attendant at its 

 meetings. He became Hon. Librarian in 1860 and printed two 

 catalogues of their books. He was elected a member of the 



