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
James Croll
Born: January 2, 1821
Died: December 15, 1890 (aged 69)
Bio: James Croll was a 19th-century Scottish scientist who developed a theory of climate change based on changes in the Earth's orbit.
Known for:
- Discussions on Climate and Cosmology (1885)
- The Philosophical Basis of Evolution (1890)