INDEX. 





A 



Abendwolke or Fallcloud, 12, note. 

 Action of clouds on each other, 89. 

 Aerolites, 125. 



Alternating colours of Stars, 86, note. 

 ANIMALS show signs of the weather, 130. 



by instinct and not by observation, ibid. 

 Virgil's opinion of, ibid. 

 Antares and other Red Stars, ibid. 

 Ants, carrying about their eggs a sign of Rain, 137. 

 Aratus quoted, 128 and alibi. 

 Atmospherical changes not the cause of sudden cures, 176, note. 



Diseases and Epidemicks, ibid. 



Superstitions and Antiquities, ibid. 



Electricity, 209. 



Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights, 218. 

 at Hartfield, 219. 



B 



Balloons indicate the succession of currents in the air, 202. 

 Bells rung on All Soul's Day, 304. 



distant sound of, portends Rain, see Prognosticks. 



Bertholon, 1'Abbe, his idea of the electrical office performed by Scud 

 and other flying clouds, 48, note. 

 C 



Cats, atmospherical diseases among, 193. 

 Changes of weather, 128. 



of colour in clouds, 88. 

 Cirrocumulus or Sonderdoud, 15. 

 Cirrose Crown, 33. 



Cirrus or Curlcloud, 5. _ if fP~\ 



Cirrostratus or Wanecloud, 1?. VJu 1 *^ 

 Clouds, M. Howard's theory of, 1 . 



Aristotle's notion of their causes, 2. 



Nomenclature of, and their new English names, 5 and sequel. 



their colours, 84 and 88. 



their elevation at different times, 90. 



their structure and buoyancy, 95. 



Ideas of De Luc and Saussure of, 96. 



of the subdivisions of their modifications, 40 and sequel. 

 Cock, figure of, used for Vanes on steeples, 265. 

 Cockcrowing, superstitions concerning, 2G4. 

 Colour of Starlight, 86, note. 



