Re: NANFA-L-- Last Night's Nova

ichthos at comcast.net
Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:21:31 +0000

Marjorie Courtenay Latimer discovered the coelacanth.
JLB Smith named it Latimeria after the young museum curatrix.

Chris Scharpf
Baltimore

> SHasloue at kdhe.state.ks.us wrote:
>
> >Great program about the re-discovery of the coelacanth!
> >
> >It kind of put a little well deserved "Indiana Jones"-like mystique to
> >Ichthyology.
> >
> >
> >
> JLB Smith, the guy who discovered it, published a nifty book about the
> whole adventure back in 1956. I recently lost an ebay auction in which I
> tried to get it, but from what I understand, the thing reads almost like
> an Indiana Jones movie, but one written by Jones himself.
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