Portrait by John Opie Namer of Clouds "Luke Howard and Cloud Names In December 1802, a pharmacist called Luke Howard presented his paper, "On the modification of clouds" ('modification' meaning 'classification'), and in it proposed some of the cloud names we still use today. Howard introduced 3 basic cloud types: Cirrus (Latin for a curl of hair), which he described as "parallel, flexuous, or diverging fibres, extensible in any or all directions." Cumulus (meaning heap), which he described as "convex or conical heaps, increasing upward from a horizontal base." Stratus (meaning something spread), which he described as "a widely extended, continuous, horizontal sheet, increasing from below." He combined these names to form 4 more cloud types..." Read more at (http://www.rmets.org/weather-and-climate/observing/luke-howard-and-cloud-names) See also the article, How the Naming of Clouds Changed the Skies of Art, http://hyperallergic.com/261023/how-the-naming-of-clouds-changed-the-skies-of-art/ "... born in London on 28 November 1772, the first child of successful businessman Robert Howard and his wife Elizabeth. He was educated at a Quaker school at Burford in Oxfordshire and was then apprenticed to a retail chemist in Stockport. He became, like his father, a businessman, developing a firm that manufactured pharmaceutical chemicals. His real interest was, though, in meteorology, and he made a number of significant contributions to the subject besides his cloud classification. He published The Climate of London (1st edition 1818, 2nd edition 1830), Seven lectures on meteorology (1837), A cycle of 18 years in the seasons of Britain (1842) and Barometrographia (1847). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 8 March 1821 and joined the British (now Royal) Meteorological Society on 7 May 1850, only a month after the society was founded. He died in London on 21 March 1864. (http://www.rmets.org/weather-and-climate/observing/luke-howard-and-cloud-names) undefined

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