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aad Abies harhonensls, both raised by him from cones he brought 

 from the Atlas Mountaina. 



Highly esteemed in his own neighbourhood, he was justice of 

 the peace for Lancashire and the West Eiding of Yorkshire ; a 

 governor of Chetham College since 1869 ; a Eellow of the Royal 

 Geographical Society, and of our own since 6th April, 1865. His 

 single contribution to our publications is his " Notes on the Desert 

 Flora of Sinai," which was printed in our Journal (Botany), ix. 

 (1866) pp. 208-229 ; but he frequently contributed notes to the 

 gardening journals ' The Garden ' and ' The Gardeners' Chronicle' ; 

 and Eucryiihia pinnatifolia, C. Gay, was figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine, t. 7067, from a specimen contributed by Mr. Milne- 

 Rcdhcad. 



By the death of Walter Pekcx- Sladen the world has lost one of 

 the noblest and most lovable of men, the Linnean Society a zealous 

 enthusiast, who laboured for ten years as its Zoological Secretary, 

 and the extent of whose work on its behalf, editorial and adminis- 

 trative, is known only to those who were privileged to witness 

 its performance. To recall his genial presence, the ardour with 

 which he would at times defend and represent others, as on the 

 memorable occasion when, on behalf of Mr. G, M. Thomson, of New 

 Zealand, he read his paper on the Crustacean genus Anasjndes, is 

 to appreciate his worth, and to look back upon a prosperous period 

 in the history of the Society. Sladen was born in 1849 at Meerlough 

 House, near Halifax, Yorkshire, and educated at Hipperholme 

 Grammar School, and afterwards at Marlborough under Dean 

 Bradley. He came of an old Yorkshire family, and ease and re- 

 finement, born in him, were among his most marked characteristics. 

 His elementary training in science was self-acquired, his choice of 

 zoology his own ; and in the definite resolve to devote his talents to 

 the study of the Echinodermata, he showed a force of character 

 worthy the highest admiration. His scientific work extended over 

 a period of seventeen years, and of the thirty odd memoirs he 

 produced twenty-one were from his own hand alone. The remainder 

 were written in conjunction with his intimate friend and adviser, 

 the late Prof. Martin Duncan, and of these many grace the pages 

 of the Linnean Society's publications. The majority of his writings 

 Avere upon the Starfishes ; several, however, dealt with fossil forms, 

 and of the latter the two which appeared in the Palteontographical 

 Society's Memoirs, and that in the Reports of the Geological Survey 

 of India, will be well remembered. He became famous as a 

 student of his especial group, through his description in 1878 of 

 the remarkable genus Astrophtura ; and as a histologist, while 

 at the Naples Zoological Station, he worked out the structure and 

 functions of the pedicellarice and, allied organs, later announcing 

 the discovery of the " cribriform organ " which bears his name. 

 Chief among his intimate associates and co-workers were the late 

 Dr. P. H. Carpcnlcr and his pupil Mr. H. Bury; and while from 

 this association it is not surprising to find that Sladen advanced 



