Luke Howard has been called "the father of meteorology" because of his comprehensive recordings of weather in the London area from 1801 to 1841 and his writings, which transformed the science of meteorology [REF].
Howard was not the first to attempt a classification of clouds-Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) had earlier proposed a list of descriptive terms in French-but the success of Howard's system was due to his use of universal Latin, as well as to his emphasis on the mutability of clouds.