Word: herpetologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also occasionally turn to Miss Ryerson for emergency help in verifying the medical details of news stories. What she doesn't know, she can, of course, find out-sometimes with engaging results. Asked one day what items went into an emergency kit for snake bite, she called a herpetologist at the Bronx Zoo to make sure. The excited zooman refused to tell her a thing until she told him what kind of poisonous reptile had bitten...