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Arthur Loveridge was a British biologist and herpetologist who wrote about animals in East Africa, particularly Tanzania, and New Guinea. He gave scientific names to several gecko species in the region. In 1924, he joined the Museum of Comparative Zoology in the grounds of Harvard University, where he was the curator of herpetology. He returned to East Africa on several field trips and wrote many scientific papers before retiring from Harvard in 1957. On retirement, they moved to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic, from where he continued his interest in natural history, publishing several articles on the island's wildlife in the St Helena Wirebird and St Helena News Review in the 1960s & 1970s. Several species and subspecies of reptiles are named in his honor, including Afroedura loveridgei, Anolis loveridgei, Atractus loveridgei, Elapsoidea loveridgei, Emoia loveridgei, Gongylophis colubrinus loveridgei, Melanoseps loveridgei, Philothamnus nitidus loveridgei, and Typhlops loveridgei.[1]

Three species of endemic St Helenian insect were named after him. the cranefly Dicranomyia loveridgeana, the blackfly Simulium loveridgei, and the subgenus Loveridgeana of the hoverfly genus Sphaerophoria, with Spherophora (Loveridgeana) beattiei known on the island as Loveridge's hoverfly. His insect collecting satchel is on display in the St Helena Museum in Jamestown

Karl Patterson Schmidt was an American herpetologist. From 1916 to 1922, he worked as scientific assistant in herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, under the American herpetologists Mary Cynthia Dickerson and Gladwyn K Noble. He made his first collecting expedition to Puerto Rico in 1919, then became the assistant curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1922. From 1923 to 1934, he made several collecting expeditions for that museum to Central and South America, which took him to Honduras, Brazil and Guatemala. In 1937, he became the editor of the herpetology and ichthyology journal Copeia, a post he occupied until 1949. He became the chief curator of zoology at the Field Museum in 1941, where he remained until his retirement in 1955. From 1942 to 1946, he was the president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. In 1953, he made his last expedition, which was to Israel

Malcolm Arthur Smith was a herpetologist and physician working in the Malay Peninsula. Smith went on to become the physician in the royal court of Siam and was a doctor to the royal family. He published his observations on the reptiles and amphibians during his stint there and was in regular correspondence with Boulenger at the Natural History Museum in London. He left in 1925 to continue his studies at the museum in London. He was the founder and president of the British Herpetological Society

Charles Robert Senhouse Pitman was a herpetologist and conservationist. From 1925 to 1951 he was Game Warden of the Uganda Protectorate. He was active with conservation and preservation groups such as the Elsa Foundation, the Fauna Preservation Society and the Rare Breeds Survival Trust