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FROM the discovery of the first Coelacanth at East London in 1938, it was my aim not only to discover their true home, but also I hoped to live to see a living Coelacanth, and for mankind generally to be able to see this living link with the incredibly remote past. When Malania was found at the Comores, I planned to catch Coelacanths alive and to keep them alive. It is therefore gratifying that the French are plainly making every endeavour to achieve this. The article by Prof. J. Millot in Nature of February 26, 1955, on the experience of the first living Coelacanth at the Comores is of special interest.
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SMITH, J. Live Coelacanths. Nature 176, 473 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/176473a0
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