Postcard memorialising the finding of the coelacanth by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer

Commemorative postcard showing the taxidermied specimen of Latimeria chalumnae first found off the coast of South Africa on December 22 1938.

From top left, the postcard shows the front of the East London Museum where Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer worked as a curator; a photograph of the curator herself, Captain Hendrik Goosen's boat which fished the coelacanth, the curator's signature and the taxidermied specimen of Latimeria chalumnae.