...said Charles Darwin, more than any man ever has. He should have, too - he spent seven years of his life working up the first encyclopedic monograph on the group. But that pales into insignificance compared to Alan Southward, who died last year.
The Other 95% has a very nice roundup post on Southward's work on barnacles, including a just-published paper, which you should immediately go read. And some nice pictures of my favourite historical invert, the Gooseneck Barnacle that gave rise to the myth of the Barnacle Goose.
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Thanks for the link! Sometimes I feel we are losing all the great naturalists, but I suppose that has been said every generation. I hope the jobs and funding are available to secure a future for the next generation of great naturalists.
I love the barnacle goose story, was almost going to include it...
The thing is, Kevin, that the great naturalists of the next generation are all but invisible to us now. But they are out there, be assured.