The Percy Sladen Memorial Trust is a

trust fund A trust is a legal relationship in which the holder of a right gives it to another person or entity who must keep and use it solely for another's benefit. In the Anglo-American common law, the party who entrusts the right is known as the " sett ...

administered by the

Linnean Society of London The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study and dissemination of information concerning natural history, evolution, and taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript and literature colle ...

for the support of scientific research. It was endowed by Constance Sladen, who was married to the marine biologist

Percy Sladen Walter Percy Sladen (30 June 1849 – 11 June 1900) was an English biologist who specialised in starfish. The son of a wealthy leather merchant, Sladen was born near Halifax, Yorkshire on 30 June 1849. He was educated at Hipperholme Grammar Sc ...

(1849–1900), in his memory. The Trust has in general been devoted to the support of field work. Major scientific expeditions that have been funded under the Trust include: * the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean (1905)The reports of this expedition were published in three volumes of the ''Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.2nd Series: Zoology
Volume I (Volume 12 of the journal, 1907-9)Volume II (Volume 13, 1909-10)Volume III (Volume 14, 1910-12)
/ref> ; * the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Melanesia; * the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to West Africa; * the Percy Sladen Trust Expeditions to the Abrolhos Islands (1913,1915); * the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to Lake Titicaca (1937) Other uses of the fund include a grant to the

Royal Albert Memorial Museum Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is a museum and art gallery in Exeter, Devon, the largest in the city. It holds significant and diverse collections in areas such as zoology, anthropology, fine art, local and overseas archaeolo ...

in Exeter, towards curation of the Sladen Collection of

echinoderm An echinoderm () is any member of the phylum Echinodermata (). The adults are recognisable by their (usually five-point) radial symmetry, and include starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, as well as the s ...

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