Being Green - 23 August 2019

A concatenation of circumstances led to the world-shattering find of the Coelacanth on that fateful day in late December 1938, when Marjorie Latimer recognized a distinctive blue fin sticking out of a bunch of trawled fish on the quay in East London. She had no idea what it was, but she knew it was important. You could say in a way Marjorie’s unique upbringing and far from conventional education, and her experience as a single-handed museum curator, had prepared her for just this climactic event. Mike Bruton, himself of Coelacanth fame, has been researching her life and work.