More than seven decades later, the words have the same urgency as when they rolled off Marjorie Courtinay-Latimer’s telegraph machine and into history:
MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED.
Courtinay-Latimer was the young curator of a natural history museum on South Africa’s east coast. The message came from J.L.B. Smith, an icthyologist to [...]
Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/05/hans-fricke/