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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

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

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

William Charles Linnaeus Martin was an English naturalist. He was the son of English naturalist and palaeontologist William Martin (1767-1810), who named him after the taxonomist Carl Linnaeus. Martin was the curator of the ZSL Museum from 1830-1839. After this he was a prolific natural history writer, authoring many books and articles. Forty-five of his papers appear in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society.