INDEX 



A.C.M.E., 71, 97, 222 

 African Coelacanth Marine Expedi- 

 tion, see A.C.M.E. 

 Afrikanerdom, 118 

 Airbladder, 92, 208, 230 

 Air Force officers, 131 

 Albany Museum, 7 

 Aldabra, 215, 224 

 American journalists, 97 

 Amino-acids, 235, 246 

 Amphibians, 14 

 Ancestral Coelacanths, Appendix B, 



233 

 Anglmg, 6, 27 

 Anjouan, 156, 220, 244, 252 

 anjouanae, see Malania aiy'ouanae 

 Anonymous letter, 190, 254 

 Ape-man, 14 

 Aquarium for Coelacanth, 223, 239, 



242 

 Archeozoic, 14 

 Aristea, 148 



Art school, opening of, 119 

 Astove, 224 



Author, biography of, 4 

 'Axial' column, 231 



Bacari, Madi, 239 



Backbone, 37, 231 



Backman, F., 183 



Backman, L., 183 



Ban on Coelacanth expedition, 215 



Barnard, Dr. K. H., 8, 33 et seq. 



Barros, Comandante P. Correia de, 134 



Barros, Senhora Donna Maria Emilia, 



134 

 Basal (fin), 231 



Bazaruto, 74, 78, 134, 163, 218 

 Beek, J., 109, 113 

 Beira, 134 



Bergh, Lieut. W. J., 133 et seq., 164 

 Birds, 14 

 'Bishops', 4 

 Blaauw, Commandant J. P. D., 131, 133 



et seq., 164 

 'Blondie', 92 

 Boer War, 4 



Bowker, T. B., M.P., 94, 97 

 Boxing Day, 107 

 Brain, 183, 245 

 Brain cavity, 230 



Brains of fossils, 234 

 Brink, Cpl. F., 133 et seq., 164 

 British Museum, 23, 48, 55, 190, 198 

 Broadcast from Durban, 160, 190, 



Appendix E, 247 

 Broom, Dr. R., 98 

 Bruce-Bayes, Dr., 25, 42, 55 



Cables re Second Coelacanth, 85, 89, 



Id, 109, 130 

 Cainozoic, 14 

 Calypso, 224 

 Cambrian, 14 

 Cambridge, 5 



Campbell, Dr. George, 86, 90, 128 

 Campbell, Mrs., 131 

 Cape Delgado, 77 

 Cape Times, 98 

 Cape Town, 94 

 Caranx, 159 

 Carboniferous, 14 

 Cartwright, G. F., 21S et seq. 

 CeUs, 246 



Center, Mr. (taxidermist), 37 

 Chalumna River, 40, 43 

 chalumnae, see Latimeria chalumnae 

 Channel Islands, 196 et seq. 

 Chemistry, 4, 6, 67 

 Chemistry Department, 69 

 Chief of Staff, 107 

 Christmas Day, 105 

 Cod-end, 61, 92 

 Coelacanth(s), characteristics of, 



Appendix A, 229 



— colour, 61, 239 



— described as 'degenerate side-line* 



19 



— diet of, 20 



— habitat, 59 e< seq. 



— head of, 230 



— home of, 51, 59, 193, 226; con- 



firmed, 221 ; idea of hunt for, 



51 



— latest position, Appendix C, 237 



— leaflet about, 72, 78, 80 et seq., no, 



149, 156, 244, 249 



— live, 238 et seq. ; keeping alive, 223 ; 



photographing, 216; reason for 

 death, 240 et seq. ; seen by goggler, 

 218 



— meaning of name, 23 1 



