Samuel Booker McDowell, Jr.
Samuel Booker McDowell, Jr (1928 - 2014) was an American herpetologist who worked on the comparative anatomy of turtles and snakes and studied snakes of Oceania. He earned a B.Sc. (1947) and a Ph.D. (1957) from Columbia University., and worked at the American Museum of Natural History. His zoological author abbreviation is McDowell. The snakes", Morelia mcdowelli NSW Coastal Carpet Python; Hydrophis macdowelli Small-headed Sea Snake; Candoia mcdowelli Bevel-nosed Ground Boa; Tropidonophis mcdowelli New Guinea keelback & Typhlops mcdowelli New Guinea Blind Snake" are named in his honour.