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	Gentleman's Magazine 1816 part 1 p.131 Other Names for Clouds Specimen of a new Nomenclature for Meteorological Science; by THOS. FORSTER, F.L.S. Hill. Soc. Nat. Sci. Phil. &c. THE habit of the English writers of borrowing from other tongues the greatest part of their technical words, especially those which are used for the Sciences, is one of the causes why Natural History is not so much known to the generality of the people here, as it seems to be in many of the Northern Countries. This fact was brought into view to me, when I asked several Artists, who were about to travel over Wales and other mountainous lands, to watch for and to sketch the changes of the different forms of the clouds which took place in such places, in order to compare them with those which are common in flat countries. They told me that they could never remember the technical terms, which were made up of Latin or Greek words, which they did not understand; and wished that names could be given to Meteorological Phaenomena, which are formed out of our own tongue. Struck by this remark, I made the following Name-list, which I shall go on with hereafter for other appearances. Meanwhile, those who will do me
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