It was then renamed " nimbostratus, " and published with the new name in the 1932 edition of the " International Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky ".
2.
The weather is a nobler and more interesting subject; it is the present state of the skies, and of the earth, on which plenty and famine are suspended, on which millions depend for the necessaries of life ."
3.
Lieutenant-colonel Rousset, author of a " Histoire de la guerre Franco Allemande 1870 1871 ( History of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 1871 ) ", never makes any reference to it, while he swarms with lively details up to and including the depth of the snow and the state of the sky.