Quote of the day
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Alfred Harker

Born: February 19, 1859
Died: July 28, 1939 (aged 80)
Bio: Alfred Harker was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland and conducted extensive surveying and geological studies of western Scotland and the Isle of Skye.
Known for:
- The Natural History of Igneous Rocks (1909)
- Petrology for Students (1895)
- BALA VOLCANIC SERIES OF CAERNA
- Notes on Geological Map-reading (1920)






