Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was curator of the museum in the port town of East London, northeast of Cape Town, South Africa, and always interested in seeing unusual specimens...

Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was a self-trained South African naturalist who in 1938 discovered the coelacanth, a species of bony, four-finned fish often described as a living fossil...

Aged 97 at the time of her death, Courtenay-Latimer was an East London museum curator when she made the discovery and had an interest in fish specimens...