  We investigate the effects of fluctuations of the nuclear surface on the
harmonic oscillator elastic charge form factor of light nuclei, while
simultaneously approximating the short-range correlations through a Jastrow
correlation ~factor. Inclusion of surface-fluctuation effects within this
description, by truncating the cluster expansion at the two-body part, is found
to improve somewhat the fit to the elastic charge form-factor of $^{16}O$ and
$^{40}Ca$. However, the convergence of the cluster expansion is expected to
deteriorate. An additional finding is that the surface-fluctuation correlations
produce a drastic change in the asymptotic behavior of the point-proton form
factor, which now falls off quite slowly (i.e. as $const. \cdot q^{-4}$) at
large values of the momentum transfer $q$.
