626 KANSAS CITY REVIEW OF SCIENCE. 
Jupiter on the 1st will pass the meridian at 4h. 08 m. p. m., and set at 10. 
h. 24 m. p. m., and on the 28th it will pass the meridian at 2 h. 41 m. p. m., | 
and set atg h. 04 m. p. m. On the 22nd it will be in conjunction with Venus, | 
passing south of that planet 3° 20’. 
Saturn on the 1st will pass the meridian at 4 h. 41 m. p. m., and sets at 11 | 
h. 04 m. p. m., andon the 28th it will pass the meridian at 3 h. 04 m. p. m., and 
will set at 9 h. 30 m. p. m. 
Uranus on the rst will pass the meridian at 2h. 11 m. p. m., and on the 
28th ato h 21 m. a. m. 
Neptune on the rst will pass the meridian at 5 h. 49 m. p. m., and on the 
28th at 4h. 4 m. p. m. 
The Moon on the 2nd is in conjunction with Venus, passing north of that 
planet 5° 28’. On the 3rd it will pass Saturn and Jupiter. On the 5th it will 
pass Neptune and will be in conjunction with Uranus on the 15th. It will also 
pass Mars on the 25th. 
Mii ORO OGY: 
CLOUDS. 
PROF. BY S. A. MAXWELL. 
In this article I propose to say a few words concerning popular errors in ref- 
erence to clouds and storms. The first of these which I shall notice is the so- 
called return of a storm, after it has passed. Some people tell us that a storm 
frequently makes a retrograde movement, z.e. having passed in an easterly 
direction, it stops, changes its course, and returns toward the west. NowI do not 
wish to dispute any one, for I do not know what persons may have seen in othe 
lands, but, so far as our locality is concerned, this particular phenomenon has 
never occurred during the last fifteen years. I know that many times there 
appears to be such a motion; but such motion is apparent, not real. After 2 
shower has passed there is very often a large area in the track of the storm, over 
which are floating clouds which are just ready to discharge their vapors in thi 
form of rain. These clouds suddenly begin to precipitate rain, and the casuai 
observer would remark, that the storm was returning from the east. Let those 
who harbor the idea that a storm ever retraces its course, please to observe in 
which direction the clearing up commences and the sky first appears; in 
all cases it will prove to be very nearly in the same direction as the storm came 
up. The deception is often rendered still more complete by the direction of the 
wind; and this leads us to the consideration of the second error, which we sha! 
notice, viz.: that the direction of the wind at the earth's surface ts not the same as in 
the higher regions of the air, where the storm clouds float. It is a very common 
belief that the snow storms, called Northeasters, come from the northeast; but it 
