Field trips and friendships

a Memoir of Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer

Authors

  • R.M. Tietz East London Museum

Abstract

Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer, former director of the East London Museum, D.Phil. (Honoris causa) of Rhodes University, Fellow of the South African Museums Association, Honorary Life Vice-President of our Society and Freeman of the City of East London died after a short illness on May 17, 2004. She was 97 and had earned an international reputation for saving the famous fossil fish for science.

References

Robert Ball (journalist) for permission to quote from his columns in The Herald on May 21 and 28, 2004

Auriol Batten (author, artist and life-long friend)

Mary Bursev (malacologist at the E.L. Museum)

Errol Hayden (retired, formerly Chief Technician at the E.L. Museum)

Douglas Hey (retired Director of Nature and Environmental Conservation of the Cape)

the late Richard Liversidge (former Director of the McGregor Museum and a Fellow of SAMA)

Dorothy Randell (artist and life-long friend)

C.J. (Jack) Skead (colleague, formerly the Director of the Kaffrarian Museum)

J.L.B. Smith 1897-1968 (lecturer in chemistry at Rhodes University and later Professor of Ichthyology who described the coelacanth)

Brian W. Watson (friend and former Chairman of the E.L. Museum)

Ros White (friend, formerly Historian at the E.L. Museum

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Published

2004-05-31

Issue

Vol. 42 No. 1 (2004): The Coelacanth : the Journal of the Border Historical Society

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