APPENDIX A 



SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF COELACANTHS AND 

 HOW THEY DIFFER FROM MOST MODERN FISHES 



IT has been emphasised that in its bony jaws and overlapping scales 

 even the earliest Coelacanths showed characteristics that have endured 

 to the present day. While the Coelacanths have changed little over 

 vast ages, there have been modifications in structure in other forms of 

 fishes, so that the primitive Coelacanth differs markedly in many ways 

 from most modern bony fishes. 



Fig. 7. — Above, a typical modern fish, the 'Soldier' of Natal ; and below, 



a Coelacanth. 



