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Online Publication Date: 27 Mar 2020

Joseph C. Mitchell (1948–2019): Herpetologist and Natural Historian of the Old Dominion

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Page Range: 188 – 194
DOI: 10.1643/OT-19-331
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Copyright: © 2020 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
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Joe Mitchell as a small child, with his mother, Kathleen, and father, Calvin Mitchell.

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Joe Mitchell and his family. (A) Left to right: Joe with siblings and their spouses: brother Ronnie and Karen Mitchell; Joe; sister Susan and Billy Johnson; brother Allen and Patti Mitchell. (B) Front row (left to right): Joe's oldest daughter Tanya Mitchell Shewmake; Joe, with granddaughter Allison Shewmake; youngest daughter, Lisa Mitchell. Back row (left to right): son-in-law, Stephen Shewmake; and sons Justin and Josh Mitchell. (C) Joe with grandchildren James and Allison Shewmake.

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Joe Mitchell and his wife, Susan Walls (2006). Photo by Jamie Reaser.

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Joe Mitchell and a Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) at his uncle Cos Craig's home in the Blue Ridge of Virginia.

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Joe Mitchell, with a pet Mole Kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster), as a high-school junior with a pair of award-winning mahogany lamps he made with a snake motif, reflecting his developing interest in herpetology.

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Joe Mitchell, 1967, as U.S. Marine, during his training at Parris Island.

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(A) Joe recording data for a turtle, Virginia, 1987. (B) Joe (left) and Kurt Buhlmann, 7 May 2009.

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Joe Mitchell and the Santa Fe River Turtle Project. (A) Jerry Johnston (left) and Joe (right). (B) Joe (center) with two students demonstrating measurements and aging of turtles.

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Joe Mitchell in the field. (A) In the Pine Barrens, New Jersey, 28 September 1999. Photo by Robert Zappalorti. (B) In Manaus, Brazil, with a Red-Footed Tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius) on a field trip following the ASIH meetings in 2003. (C) Joe in the field in Virginia. Photo by Lynda Richardson. (D) Joe with a Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macroclemys suwanniensis), 1 June 2017, on Rum Island, Santa Fe River, Florida. Photo by Georgia Shemitz.

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(Left to right) Mark Bailey, Kurt Buhlmann, Jeff Holmes, Paul Moler, and Joe Mitchell in 2007 after Mark, Kurt, Jeff, and Joe together won the Paul Moler Award for Herpetological Conservation from the Florida Chapter of the Wildlife Society.

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Joe in his “Southern Gentleman” attire presenting at the 2007 SE PARC meeting. Photo by Ken Dodd.

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