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The fish was caught in the ocean near the mouth of the
Chalumna river in southeastern South Africa. Marjorie
Courtenay-Latimer, the 31-year-old curator of the nearby East
London Museum, was a fan of unusual fish and had contracted
with local fishermen to save any interesting specimens for
her. She immediately recognized that the strange blue
iridescent fish was significant and sent a simple drawing of
the fish to a nearby scientist and self-taught ichthyologist,
J.L.B. Smith. (To find out what happened next, see
Moment of Discovery.