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	Telegraph \| News \| Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
		Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, who died on Monday aged 97, was a museum curator whose persistence led to the discovery that the coelacanth, a prehistoric "fossil fish" which had been assumed to have been extinct for 70 million years, was alive and well in the sea off South Africa.
		Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer was born more than two months prematurely on February 24 1907, the daughter of a station master on the South African Railways.
		When Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer took over the museum, its exhibits consisted of a bottled piglet with six legs, six stuffed birds which were so riddled with parasites that she had to burn them, 12 pictures of East London and 12 prints of Xhosa War scenes.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/05/19/db1902.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/05/19/ixopright.html (1360 words)

	Genealogy Goosen
		In 1938, thirty two-year-old Marjorie Courtenay Latimer was the curator of a tiny museum in the port town of East London, northeast of Cape Town, South Africa.
		The dockman called Marjorie, who was busy mounting a reptile collection, but felt she ought at least go down to the docks to wish the crew of the Nerine a merry Christmas.
		Marjorie Courtenay Latimer, curator of a tiny museum in the port town of East London at South Africa's southernmost tip, was known by the locals to be fascinated by unusual marine fish.
	www.goosen.org /things/coelacanth.html (1987 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Marjorie did not have much formal education when it came to marine life, but it was her keen eye and devotion to everything naturalist that led her to the discovery of a lifetime.
		Marjorie was deeply engrossed in her work, when the urgent cry of the telephone shattered her thoughts.
		Marjorie's discovery was taken as a huge victory by evolutionists around the world (Weinberg 22).
	mason.gmu.edu /~hdinh/narrativedraft.html (1307 words)

	OSIR.org.in - Marine Species [International Centre for Marine Research & Conservation] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Coelacanth was first discovered in 1938 by Marjorie Courtenay Latimer, the curator of a small museum in the port town of East London, as she was visiting a fisherman who would let her search through his boat's catch for interesting specimens.
		Ironically, Marjorie was only visiting the sea captain to wish him a happy Christmas when she first spotted the Coelacanth's oddly shaped, blue-gray fin protruding from beneath a mountain of fish.
		Marjorie brought back the specimen to the museum where she compared it against images of known species, and ultimately realized what she had was no ordinary fish.
	www.osir.org.in /cgi-bin/action.cgi?page=species_index (349 words)

	Coelacanth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The gombessa (Latimeria chalumnae) was found by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer in 1938.
		A fishing boat caught sharks near the Chalumna River, and Latimer, who was curator of a museum in East London and often looked for odd fish in the harbor, saw a blue fin under them.
		She pulled the fish out of the pile and brought it to the museum to find out what kind of fish it was.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/c/co/coelacanth.html (663 words)

	Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
		Latimer identified the coelacanth in December 1938, a fish thought to have been extinct for 70 million years.
		In 1935, along with Eric Wilson, she excavated the fossil skeleton of the dicynodont Kannemeyeria simocephalus, of key importance in the palacontological study of the southern African subregion.
		Latimer died on May 17th, 2004 at the age of 97.
	www.nndb.com /people/816/000047675 (266 words)

	Department: Science and Technology, South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer deserved all the credit and a great deal more, yet her relationship with the coelacanth and the way in which history treated her was a mixture of joy and pain.
		Perhaps Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer's last official involvement with the coelacanth was when she gave the keynote speech at the official reception of the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Conference at the East London Museum on 28 October 2003.
		Once, when Marjorie was not listening, Sister Camilla asked: “You little Latimer, what is a fossil fish?” But as she told us in the speech, “You little Latimer did not know” and so it was a case of, “You little Latimer, write out 25 lines describing fossil fishes”.
	www.dst.gov.za /publications/magazines/m00004/volume4_11.php (1022 words)

	NOVA \| Transcripts \| Ancient Creature of the Deep \| PBS
		MARJORIE COURTENAY-LATIMER: It was a pile of sponges and starfish and rat-tail fish and...you name it they were there.
		It's correspondence with Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer from 1936 onwards.
		MARJORIE COURTENAY-LATIMER: So there were a lot of confusions in the beginning, and I got blamed for losing the innards of the fish.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/3003_fish.html (6276 words)

	Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer (February 24, 1907-May 17, 2004) was the South African museum official who in 1938 brought to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for sixty-five million years.
		Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered this coelacanth, formerly only seen in fossils millions of years old, in a fisherman's catch.
		"Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Naturalist, Is Dead at 97." New York Times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marjorie_Courtenay-Latimer (553 words)

	clatimer
		EAST LONDON -- The world-renowned discoverer of the coelacanth, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, was feted here this week with a special benefit dinner in the hall named after her at the East London Museum.
		Marjorie, who is nearing her 95th birthday, recently had a heart pacemaker installed.
		Guest speaker Dr Tony Ribbink, head of the research unit at the JLB Smith Institute at Ichthyology in Grahamstown, praised the lifelong achievements of Courtenay-Latimer, and said it was hoped to secure funds to carry out research on the coelacanth, truly a living fossil.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2001/10/20/easterncape/CLATIMER.HTM (146 words)

	Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, naturalist; 97 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a self-trained South African naturalist who in 1938 discovered a live coelacanth, a species of bony, four-finned fish thought to have been extinct and often described since as a living fossil, died May 17 in East London, South Africa.
		A cause of death was not determined, although she had suffered a series of falls, said Susan L. Jewett, a researcher for the Smithsonian Institution who recently visited her.
		Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was born Feb. 24, 1907, the daughter of a railroad accountant who moved the family to stations throughout South Africa.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040612/news_1m12courten.html (607 words)

	Prominent People - Courtenay-Latimer, Marjorie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The discoverer of the Coelacanth in 1938 was the thirty-two-year-old Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer.
		She was born on 24 February 1907 and, being a premature baby, her parents thought that the weak sibling would not live very long.
		Professor Smith named the fish Latimeria chalumnae (Latimer and Chalumna River) in honour of Dr. Courtenay-Latimer who had spotted it and taken the time to preserve it.
	www.prominentpeople.co.za /people/42.php (653 words)

	Coelacanth Stamps
		Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a curator at the East London Museum, could not identify the fish.
		The first day cover for the four stamp set is also signed by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer.
		Also see the block of four; one stamp souvenir sheet and a cover bearing this sheet; a two stamp souvenir sheet; the first day cover signed by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer; and the maxicard for this stamp.
	www.pibburns.com /cryptost/coelacan.htm (1812 words)

	Guardian \| Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
		As curator of the East London museum, in South Africa, it was the job - and the pleasure - of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, who has died aged 97, to inspect any catches thought by local fishermen to be out of the ordinary.
		So when the phone rang on December 22 1938, to say that Captain Hendrik Goosen had returned with an interesting assortment, she put aside preparations for a fossil reptile display, and took a taxi to the docks.
		Awarded an honorary doctorate by Rhodes University, she continued to be active in museum affairs, as well as in botanical and conservation issues.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4929238-103684,00.html (782 words)

	The Herald : News
		She was residing at the Fairlands home for the aged since the middle of April after having suffered a fall at her Vincent home.
		Born in East London on February 24, 1907, Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer attended school at the Holy Cross Convent in Aliwal North.
		She also donated what is believed to be the world’s only dodo egg to the museum.
	www.theherald.co.za /herald/2004/05/18/news/n19_18052004.htm (415 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The coelacanth is part of a family of now- extinct fish named for their fleshy fins, called Sarcopterygians, which existed as early as 360 million years ago.
		Her discovery was accidental in nature; while on a small island in the Indian Ocean, she discovered a strange looking fish among the piles of usual ones on a dock.
		The lack of evidence of live coelacanths until the twentieth century may be due to the fact that they dwell hundreds of meters beneath the surface of the ocean, feeding off of overhangs of submarine cliffs.
	www.priweb.org /ed/ICTHOL/ICTHOL02_peer_review_papers/32.html (794 words)

	THE GREAT WHITE SHARK - C. Megalodon2
		In December of 1938, the zoological discovery of the century was made when a fishing boat caught a strange fish off the coast of Madagascar.
		Marjorie Courtenay Latimer, curator of a local museum, was visiting the fish market where she saw and purchased the strange animal.
		The coelacanth was thought to be extinct until Marjorie Courtenay Latimer (left) submitted a sketch of a fish (middle) she purchased at a local market.
	www.greatwhite.org /meg2.htm (665 words)

	The South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mid-morning of 22nd December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer of the East London Museum, received a message from the manager of lrvine and Johnson that the Nerine had docked and that there were some fish samples for her collection.
		Miss Latimer subsequently learnt that Captain Hendrik Goosen and his crew had caught the 150cm, 57.5kg fish the day before in a trawl net at a depth of about 70 metres off the Chalumna River, southwest of East London.
		Miss Latimer resolved to take the fish to the museum and with the help of her assistant they carried it in a bag to a taxi whose driver transported them under heavy protest back to the museum.
	www.saiab.ru.ac.za /educoel3.htm (3133 words)

	NOVA \| Ancient Creature of the Deep \| Moment of Discovery \| PBS
		Three days before Christmas, 1938, in the South African coastal town of East London, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, the young, fl-eyed curator of the local natural history museum, got a phone call that would turn her world upside down and ultimately make her name known internationally.
		The events that followed that call sparked a series of urgent letters between Courtenay-Latimer and J.L.B. Smith, a chemistry professor and amateur ichthyologist at Rhodes University in the nearby town of Grahamstown.
		Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and Latimeria chalumnae, the fish that bears her name, not long after the discovery.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/fish/letters.html (3074 words)

	The Coelacanth
		Pre-dating the dinosaurs by millions of years and once thought to have gone extinct with them, the Coelacanth was "discovered" alive and well in 1938 although not reported on publicly until 1939.
		In December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay Latimer curator of a tiny museum in the port town of East London, northeast of Cape Town, South Africa was contacted by Captain Hendrick Goosen, of the trawler Nerine.
		Having no idea of what type of fish it was Marjorie rushed back to the museum to do some research.
	www.hauntedtimes.com /issue/July2005/contents/coealcanth.htm (761 words)

	latimer
		EAST LONDON -- A story of the life of 92-year old East Londoner Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer will be shown in the United Kingdom some time next year following the shooting of a documentary by a British TV crew at the museum here yesterday.
		In the documentary Courtenay-Latimer will be celebrating her 92nd birthday and talking to producer Celia Lowenstein about the strange fish -- the coelacanth.
		WORLD FAMOUS: Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, film producer Celia Lowenstein, cameraman Simon French and sound technician Tony Bensusan at the filming of a documentary about Courtenay-Latimer at the museum here yesterday.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2000/03/24/easterncape/LATIMER.HTM (204 words)

	Blog of Death: Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer
		Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer, a renowned South African museum curator who discovered an ancient fish, died on May 17 of pneumonia.
		The fish's genus was named Latimeria chulumnae after Marjorie and the river where it was found.
		Courtenay-Latimer spent her later years writing a book on wild flowers and establishing the Gonubie bird sanctuary.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000981.html (316 words)

	dcoele
		Goosen was the skipper of the trawler who had sensed the strange-looking fish he had caught near the mouth of the Chalumna River, would be of interest to her and her fledgling museum.
		It was December 22, 1938 and the young museum curator in East London, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, started what was to be a life-long involvement with the coelacanth.
		When Dr Courtenay-Latimer appeared unexpectedly at an afternoon session, she was mobbed by scientists who wanted to be introduced or to have a photo taken with her.
	www.go.co.za /2003/11/06/news/DCOELE.HTM (405 words)

	Mail & Guardian Online:
		Courtenay-Latimer achieved international recognition as the discoverer of the coelacanth in 1938 when it was thought to have been extinct for 70-million years.
		She had been at the Fairlands home for the aged since the middle of April after suffering a fall in her Vincent home.
		Born in East London on February 24, 1907, Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer spent her childhood in a number of places in the Cape Province and Orange Free State and went to school at the Holy Cross Convent in Aliwal North.
	www.mg.co.za /Content/l3.asp?ao=66485 (722 words)

	Endangered Species Report #31--Coelacanth
		He had been fishing by the Chalumna river, near the southern tip of the continent, and among the fish caught was one that was 5 feet long, metallic blue in color, and weighed almost 130 pounds.
		Miss Latimer first objected, as she was quite busy at the museum, but, being Christmas time, she decided to oblige him.
		J.L.B. Smith became quite obsessed with the fish, to which he gave the Latin name Latimer chalumnae; Latimer after Miss Latimer, and chalumnae after the river it was discovered by.
	www.wildlifewatchers.org /esReports/report31.html (2643 words)

	The UnMuseum - The Coelacanth
		The day was January 3, 1939, and a letter had just arrived from a Miss Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer who was the curator at the East London Museum, South Africa.
		Courtenay-Latimer was writing to Smith, a South African chemistry professor who had taught himself ichthyology, to get his help in identifying a strange fish she had just obtained as a museum specimen, but could not find in her reference books.
		Miss Latimer was out for the moment, the caretaker ushered us into the inner room and there it was the - Coelacanth..." Smith was not prepared for his own reaction at the sight of the creature and he was so excited he began to shake.
	www.unmuseum.org /coelacan.htm (1439 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Obituaries - Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, curator
		The skipper sent a message to Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer at the local museum that he had a two-ton pile of unwanted sharks, seaweed, rat-tail fishes, sponges and sundry other things she could sort through for possible display specimens.
		The coelacanth was named and classified as Latimeria chalumnae after Ms Courtenay-Latimer and the River Chalumna, off which the living fossil was trawled.
		"Without Marjorie, the coelacanth would probably still not be known to the world, and I certainly could certainly never have written about it.
	news.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=572792004 (960 words)

	Informat.io on Coelacanth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Gestation time is 13 months, females give birth to between 5 and 25 babies, which are capable of surviving on their own immediately after birth.
		The first evidence that western scientists had of a modern, living coelacanth was when Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, curator of a museum in East London, South Africa, discovered a specimen while inspecting local fish catches for unusual marine life in 1938.
		"Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, Naturalist, Is Dead at 97", p.
	www.informat.io /?title=Coelacanth (1877 words)

	Coelacanth Discoverer Dies In S. Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, who more than 60 years ago discovered a live coelacanth, a prehistoric fish thought to be extinct, has died in hospital in South Africa.
		Courtenay-Latimer died May 17 in East London's St. Dominic's hospital after a long illness.
		She was published extensively on subjects ranging from bird and plant species and indigenous cultures.
	www.flmnh.ufl.edu /fish/InNews/latimer2004.html (280 words)

	Her fish turned out to be a fossil - Obituaries - www.smh.com.au
		Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, who has died aged 97, was a museum curator whose persistence led to the discovery that the coelacanth, a prehistoric "fossil fish" which had been assumed to have been extinct for 70 million years, was alive in the sea off South Africa.
		Smith named the fish Latimeria chalumnae in honour of Courtenay-Latimer and after the Chalumna River near which it was trawled.
		Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer was born more than two months prematurely, the daughter of a station master on the South African Railways.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/14/1087065080290.html (1378 words)

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