PLATES 



A FEW MOMENTS AFTER THE CRITICAL IDEN- 

 TIFICATION AS A COELACANTH, ON HUNT'S 

 VESSEL AT PAMANZI, 29TH DECEMBER 1952 



frontispiece 



1 MISS M. COURTENAY-LATIMER facing 



MISS Latimer's sketch and notes page 



A COELACANTH FOSSIL, WHICH DATES BACK 170 

 MILLION YEARS, FOUND BY DR. E. NIELSEN 

 IN GREENLAND 32 



2 THE FIRST THREE COELACANTHS 33 



3 THE FAMOUS COELACANTH LEAFLET 112 



4 MONSIEUR P. COUDERT, GOVERNOR OF THE 



COMORES, NEAR THE WHARF AT DZAOUDZI, 

 29TH DECEMBER I952 

 'hunt's TRIM VESSEL,' AT THE WHARF, 

 DZAOUDZI, SHOWING THE COELACANTH BOX 

 ON THE LEFT II3 



5 THE LANDING-STRIP AT PAMANZI, COMORES 



'the beloved isle' of MOZAMBIQUE, P.E.A. 128 



6 IN THE LATTER PART OF AN UNENDING DAY, 



29TH DECEMBER I952, TELEPHONING BRIGA- 

 DIER MELVILLE IN PRETORIA 



DR. D. F. MALAN EXAMINES THE COELACANTH 

 AT THE STRAND, 3OTH DECEMBER I952 



THE COELACANTH QUARTET, NAIROBI, 24TH 



OCTOBER 1953 129 



