The Percy Sladen Memorial Trust is a

trust fund A trust is a legal relationship in which the owner of property, or any transferable right, gives it to another to manage and use solely for the benefit of a designated person. In the English common law, the party who entrusts the property is k ...

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 (biology), taxonomy. It possesses several important biological specimen, manuscript a ...

for the support of scientific research. It was endowed by

Constance Sladen Constance Sladen (11 August 184817 January 1906) was an artist, architectural historian and philanthropist who was one of the first female members of the Linnean Society of London and founded the Percy Sladen Memorial Trust in memory of her la ...

, 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 Sch ...

(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 and Godman Trusts expedition to the islands in the Gulf of Guinea (1932-1933); * 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 foreign archaeolog ...

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, towards curation of the Sladen Collection of

echinoderm An echinoderm () is any animal of the phylum Echinodermata (), which includes starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars and sea cucumbers, as well as the sessile sea lilies or "stone lilies". While bilaterally symmetrical as ...

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