Oceanographic investigations, 71, 222 



et seq. 

 Odour, 24, 48, 51 

 Oil, 37, 48, 158, 232, 236, 246 

 Oil-fish, 155, 194 

 Old Fourlegs, 64, 231 

 Oligocene, 14 

 Ordovician, 14 

 Organisms new to science, procedure 



re naming, 45 



Palaeontologists' reconstructions, 234, 



245 

 Palaeontology, 11, 13 

 Paleozoic, 14 



Pamanzi, 85, 141, 144, 252 

 Pamanzi landing strip, 133 

 Parasites, 246 

 Parrot-fish, 82 

 Parrot-fish, giant, 106 

 Pebane, 137 

 Pemba, 80, 82 

 Permian, 14 

 Phillip, South African Vice-Consul; 



133, 163 

 Photophobia, 240, 242 

 Piltdown Man, 12 

 Pinda, 75, 160 

 Plants, First lowly forms, 14 



— Flowering, 14 



— Primitive, on land, 14 

 Pleistocene, 14 



Poison, Rotenone, 212, 213 



Politics, 4 



Ponte de Barra Falsa, 219 



Port Amelia, 76 



Portuguese, 69, 134, 139 



Portuguese Authorities, 72, 73, 79, 218 



Portuguese East Africa, 89. See also 



Mozambique 

 Portuguese officials, 163 

 Post Office, 100 et seq., 251 

 Post Office, Durban, 100 et seq. 

 Pre-Cambrian, 14 

 President, C.S.I.R., 70, 99, 100, 201, 



205 

 Press, 44, 182 

 Prime Minister, 3, 67, 71, 88, 90, 95, 



114, 226, 251 

 Princeton, U.S.A., 18 

 Prior, Desmond, 1 14, 128 

 Protein, 235 

 Proterozoic, 14 

 Protozoa, 14 

 Pungutiachi Island, 83 



Quaternary, 14 

 Querimba Islands. 80 



Radio Station, Lumbo, 138 



R.A.F. officer, 189 



Ralston, Lieut. D. M., 133 et seq., 



164, 165 

 Reconstructions by Palaeontologists, 



234, 245 

 Reptiles, 14 



— giant, 233 

 Research Fellowship, 69 



Reward, 56, 64, 72, 147, 150, 151, 



249 

 Reward, First Coelacanth, 55 



— First Offer, 39 



— offered by French, 217 



— Presentation of, 185 

 Rhipidistia, 14, 17, 52, 231 



Rhodes University College, 6, 72, 119 

 Rhodesian Centenary Exhibition, 182, 



219 

 Roberts, (Mrs.) Natalie, 87, 169 

 Rock, age of, 1 1 

 Rock Cod, 49, 62, 74, 218, 220 

 Rotenone, 212, 213 

 Rovuma, 76 

 Royal Society, 40 

 Ruvettus, 155, 194 



S.A.B.C., 165 



Saccalaves, 77 



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



Council for Scientific and Industrial 



Research 

 S.A. Government Fisheries Research 



vessel, 63, 196 

 Salisbury, 218, 221 

 Salted sharks, 82 

 Salting pits, 82 



Sauer, The Hon. P., loi, 103, 206 

 Scale sent to U.S.A., 49, 191 

 Scales, 61, 158, 159, 229, 231, 244 



— in Australia, 53 



— in Johannesburg, 53 



— of First Coelacanth, 39 

 Schonland, Dr. B. F. J., 99 

 Scientific Council for Africa, 219, 222 

 Scientific Institute of Madagascar, 159 

 Scientific naming of new species, 45 

 Scientific work in South Africa, 22 

 Sea Fishes of Southern Africa, see 



Fishes, South African, Book on 

 'Sea Missing Link*, 87 

 Sea-serpent, 29 

 Seals, 92 

 Second Coelacanth, see Coelacanth, 



Second 

 Seychelles Expedition, 216, 224 

 Shark(s), 82, 84, 92 

 Sharks, salted, 82 



