The Naturalists: Sidney Hickson, a bold (and often wrong) authority

 [Here will be an account of some of Hickson's errors of interpretation.  He was an authority, often cited, often wrong.  A WORK IN :PROGRESS]

 

The Fantastical Life Cycle of Millepora was wrong 

Hickson was wrong about the nature of the life cycle of Millepora.  He presented a figure of insipient stages of male and female gametes, with absolute certainty...and absolute falsity.  Later, he admitted to the error.

 

 

The Ultimate Lumper

 Hickson argued that all species of genus Millepora were ecomorphs, and synonymized every one with Millepora alcicornis, a caribbean species.  Later, during WWII, Hulbrandt Boschma hid from the Nazis in Holland, in the archives of the Reichsmuseum in Leiden, while he painstakingly split this mass into substantially the same complex of species we know today.