OBSERVATIONS UPON CLOUDS 



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OBSERVATIONS UPON CLOUDS 



In nature-lore which is the result of the nature-study of our 

 ancestors, carried on from the most primitive times, when special 

 apparatus was unknown, nothing perhaps plays a greater part than 

 weather forecasts. Among these the form and movements of the 

 clouds claim a large share of attention, and as Euskin said to the 



From a photograph by Commander D. Wilson Barker (by kind pemtiutoit). 



FIGURE 35. Cumulus indicative of approaching showers. 



author of a book on the subject to which we shall afterwards refer, 

 there is hardly a better field for " simple observations without the 

 use of costly instruments." 



Very young students may gain much by watching the clouds and 

 making series of sketches showing their change of form. " Animal 



