Fig. 6 in A History Of Herpetology At The American Museum Of Natural History

Fig. 6. Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890–1957), another of the young men encouraged by Mary Dickerson and one of her ''triumvirate,'' which also included Noble and Camp (fig. 5). Schmidt was 32 years old when he resigned his position at the American Museum in order to start up the new herpetology division in the Field Museum of Natural History. When this picture was taken, the 57-year-old Schmidt was Chief Curator of Zoology at Field Museum and had rendezvoused for fieldwork in northern Mexico with an American Museum party led by Charles M. Bogert. Photographed by Bogert at Las Delicias, an isolated oasis at the southern end of the Chihuahuan Desert, Coahuila, Mexico, August 1947. AMNH Dept. Herpetology Archives.