THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE 



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Percy Sladen. 



wide discretion in its administration, 

 but have adopted the policy of assisting 

 expeditions. The first of these has 

 been a zoological exploration of the 

 Indian Ocean under the leadership of 

 Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, the results of 

 which are now published in the Trans- 

 actions of the Linnean Society of Lon- 

 don. They fill a volume of 419 pages, 

 the different groups of animals being 

 worked over by leading specialists. 

 The trustees of the fund are now sup- 

 porting an anthropological expedition 

 to Melanesia under the leadership of 



Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, and a third ex- 

 pedition will be sent to study the 

 botany of West Africa, under Professor 

 H. H. W. Pearson. 



The volume containing the account 

 of the expedition to the Indian Ocean 

 is prefaced by an introduction on the 

 life and work of Sladen by Mr. Henry 

 Bury, with a portrait here reproduced 

 from the painting by Mr. H. T. Wells, 

 in the possession of the Linnean So- 

 ciety. Born in 1849, Sladen was edu- 

 cated at a public school where little or 

 no attention was paid to science and 



