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3 unusual facts about Percy Sladen


Percy Sladen

Late that year he began a long and fruitful collaboration with Duncan; which would see the publication of some 15 co-authored papers, many on fossils, over the course of twelve years.

1877 also saw the publication of his first paper, in which he split the sea-lily genus Poteriocrinus into four; in his lifetime, Sladen would gain a reputation as a "splitter" because of his proclivity for declaring specimens to belong to new genera or species.

The son of a wealthy leather merchant, Sladen was born near Halifax, Yorkshire on 30 June 1849.



see also

Percy Sladen Memorial Trust

The Percy Sladen Memorial Trust is a trust fund administered by the Linnean Society of London for the support of scientific research.