Talk:Karl Patterson Schmidt

image for karl shmidti
Looking on Google, there are some other species named after him (lizard and snake, not just frog) and also images. Need to look for a free one or get a donation. (good catch on the frog pic, ugly pic anyhow.)TCO (talk) 19:22, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Image of Karl P. Schmidt
There is an excellent image of Schmidt at flickr.com. It is a hand-colored photo taken in 1928 in Central or South America, which shows him with a live "two-toed sloth hanging on a stick". There used to be a black and white copy of this photo, on which Schmidt had written not only his autograph but also a quote from Goethe, hanging on the wall in the Section of Amphibians and Reptiles at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It probably was a gift from Schmidt to M. Graham Netting when they were both officers of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.

If someone (with better computer skills than I have) could transfer this image to this WP article, it would be a great addition.98.111.224.50 (talk) 11:43, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Fatal dose of venom?
Is there evidence of Schmidt believing that a juvenile boomslang could not deliver a fatal dose of venom besides a single, rather undetailed report? There was no boomslang antivenin available in North America at the time, and it strikes me as singularly unlikely that a herpetologist with four decades of experience and field work done on multiple continents would make so basic an error. La Maupin (talk) 11:56, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

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