Marie Phisalix was a French scientist who researched snake venom and antidotes. In 1910 she joined the National Museum of Natural History, where she led the laboratory of ichthyology and herpetology. She studied the comparative anatomy of the organs that create venom as well as the pathology of their delivery
Albert Edwin Hayward Pinch was a General Surgeon and Radiologist. He was resident Medical Superintendent and General Director of the Radium Institute
Andrew Frederick Weatherby (Anthony) Beauchamp-Procter was a South African airman and a recipient of the Victoria Cross. He was South Africa's leading ace of the First World War, being credited with 54 aerial victories
Alexander Grant Ruthven received a PhD in zoology from the University of Michigan in 1906. He worked as a professor, director of the University Museum, and Dean. He became the President in 1929. The work of Ruthven on the familiar garter snakes, published in 1908, may be regarded as founding an essentially new school of herpetology in the United States. Ruthven described and named 16 new species of reptiles. Ruthven is commemorated in the scientific names of seven reptiles: Geophis ruthveni, Holbrookia maculata ruthveni, Lampropeltis ruthveni, Lepidoblepharis ruthveni, Macropholidus ruthveni, Masticophis schotti ruthveni, and Pituophis ruthveni
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
Sir John Bland Sutton was a British Surgeon. He was President of the Royal Society of Medicine between 1920 and 1922 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1923 to 1925. Interested in zoology, he served as Vice-President of the Zoological Society of London
Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher-Vane, 5th Baronet, was an Irish-born British military officer and aristocrat. He founded the Order of World Scouts
Franz Werner was an Austrian zoologist and explorer. Specialising as a herpetologist and entomologist, Werner described numerous species and other taxa of frogs, snakes, insects and other organisms