Starfish
This starfish is part of the Sladen collection. Sladen’s reputation as an echinoderm expert brought him to the attention of Sir Charles Wyville Thompson. Thompson asked him to work on the enormous wealth of echinoderm material collected on the 3-year long Challenger oceanographic survey.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 263/1903/R/110
- Category
- Natural History
- Collection Class
- Echinoderms
- Common Name
- starfish
- Simple Name
- starfish
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
