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==Biology== * December 22 β [[Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer]] discovers a [[Coelacanth]], formerly seen only in [[fossils]] millions of years old, in a fisherman's catch in [[South Africa]]. * Last known (captive) specimen of [[Schomburgk's deer]] is killed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ellis|first=Richard|authorlink=Richard Ellis (biologist)|title=No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species|publisher=Harper Perennial|date=2004|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/noturningbacklif00elli/page/311 311]β312|isbn=0-06-055804-0|url=https://archive.org/details/noturningbacklif00elli|url-access=registration}}</ref> * Bawden and Pirie publish the first crystal of a spherical [[virus]], [[Tomato bushy stunt virus]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bawden|first1=F. C.|last2=Pirie|first2=N. W.|year=1938|title=Crystalline Preparations of Tomato Bushy Stunt Virus|pmc=2065153|journal=British Journal of Experimental Pathology|volume=19|page=251}}</ref>
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