256 



Coelacanth(s) — contd. 



— origins of, Appendix D, 243 



— picture of, Ch. 2, p. 11 et seq. 



— prohibition of export, 211 



— pronunciation of name, 3, 243 



— reconstruction of, 19 



— skull, structure of, 51, 230 



— stamps, 226 



— tail, 231 



— teeth, 20, 231 

 Coelacanth, Eighth: 238 



Length of, 240 



Weight of, 240 



Coelacanth, First: 



Axial skeleton, 37 



Backbone, 37 



Capture of, 24 



Depth trawled, 40 



Dissection of, 5 1 



Flesh of, 37 



Gills, 30, 31 



Length of, 24 



Letter re, 27, 30 



Monograph on, see Monograph 



Name of, 45, 46 



Oil of, 37 



Photograph of, 38, 39, 45 



Police guard for, 48 



Positive identification, 39 



Press and, 46 



Provisional name, 36 



Publicity re, 45 



Return to East London, 54 



Skeleton of, 37 



Sketch of, 25, 26, 28, 30, 35 



Stomach of, 37 



Viscera, 30, 3 1 



Weight of, 24, 37 



Coelacanth: First identification, 33 



— First sight of, 41 



— How differs from modem fishes. 



Appendix A, 229 



— Internal nostrils, 52 



— In time, 16 

 Coelacanth, Second : 



Capture of, 156 



Depth. 156 



Identification of, 146 



Investigation of, 187, 188 



Photograph of, 1 69 



Preservation of, 158 



Telegram re, 85 



Coelacanth, Third : 



News of capture, 220 



Photographs of, 223 



Collecting box, 126 

 'Combessa', 239 

 Commander-in-Chief, 165 



Commander-in-Chief, Cape, 171 

 Comorans, 226, 244 

 Comores, 73, 78, 84, 85, 215, 250 

 Comores, Authorities of, 226 



— Governor, see Governor, Comores 

 ■ — Ichthyology of, 88 



— Structure of, 155 

 Comoro Islands, see Comores 



— natives, 155 

 Comoros, see Comores 



Coudert, Governor, M.P., 211. See also 

 Governor, Comores 



Council for Scientific and Industrial 

 Research, see South African Council 

 for Scientific and Industrial Re- 

 search 



Courtenay-Latimer, Miss M., 23 et seq., 



41, 54, 174 



Cousteau, Captain, 214, 223, 240 



Creation of hfe, 14 



Cretaceous, 14 



Crossopterygian fish, 35 



Crossopterygii, 15, 16, 30, 35 



C.S.I.R., see South African Council 

 for Scientific and Industrial Re- 

 search 



Customs, 165 



Cyclone, 141, 148, 185 



Dagger, Stanley, 85 



Daily Dispatch, see East London Daily 



Dispatch 

 Daily News, 104, 169 

 Dakota, 130, 251 

 Daniel, Brigadier, 129 

 Danish deep-sea expedition, 161 

 Dar-es-Salaam, 216 

 Deep-freeze, 202 et seq. 

 Deep-line fishing, East Africa, 155 

 Deep-sea expedition, 60 

 Deep-sea fishes, 61 

 Deep-sea refugee, 53, 59, 161 

 Defence, Minister of, 105, 116, 122, 



251 



'Degenerate*, 221 



Dennis, N., 183 



Department of Ichthyology, 70 



Depths at which caught, 60, 242. See 

 also Coelacanth, First; Coelacanth, 

 Second ; Coelacanth, Eighth 



Devonian, 14, 15 



*Dez Contos Peixe', 76 



Diego Suarez, 133, 136 



Digestive fluids, 235, 246 



Dinosaurs, 233 



'Discovery* Committee, 71, 75 



Dogmatic statements, 232, 245 



Domoni, 156, 252 



