Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Agnes Arber
Born: February 23, 1879
Died: March 22, 1960 (aged 81)
Bio: Agnes Robertson Arber FRS was a British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the last 51 years of her life.
Known for:
- Water Plants: A Study of Aquatic Angiosperms (1920)
- The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form (1950)
- The mind and the eye (1954)
- Monocotyledons: A Morphological Study (1925)