Margaret "Meg" McBride Stewart (6 Feb. 1927 – 2 Aug. 2006) was an American herpetologist, known for her research on the amphibians of Malawi, the Caribbean, and the United States. She was a professor at the State University of New York at Albany. She served as president of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. The puddle frog Phrynobatrachus stewartae was named in her honour. Life and career Stewart was born on a farm in Guilford County, North Carolina, to Mary Ellen Morrow and David Henry Stewart. She attended Alamance High School, graduating in 1944. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina's Woman's College in 1948, and her Master of Arts in Zoology from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1951. Her Master thesis work had originally been intended to be a study on behaviour of Plethodon glutinosus, but was later changed to be a study on photoperiod response in Ambystoma opacum—this would become her first published paper. After completing her master's degree, Stewart taught at Catawba College in Salisbury, North Carolina for two years, where she developed a love for undergraduate teaching, but also realised that she wanted to pursue both teaching and research. So, she decided to pursue a PhD at Cornell University. Her work focussed on the natural history of Eurycea bislineata bislineata. She finished her PhD in 1956, and, after a brief trip to Europe, joined the faculty of the New York State College for Teachers at Albany (now SUNY at Albany). Stewart married Paul Lemon, professor for plant ecology at Albany. In 1963, she obtained a Fulbright Fellowship to travel to Africa, and the two of them travelled to Malawi for a year, where she worked on the herpetofauna of the Nyika Plateau. They divorced after their return from Malawi. She later married George E. Martin, a mathematician at University at Albany. Stewart produced a fieldguide to the amphibians of Malawi in 1967, widely regarded as a landmark work in the herpetology of eastern Africa. Yet, she herself never returned to Africa. Instead, she began to work on Caribbean frogs, looking first at competition between native and invasive species in Jamaica, ultimately broadening her scope to include the rest of the Caribbean, and the United States as well. Particular emphasis was placed on Eleutherodactylus coqui, to which she had