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250 McAtTeE, In Memoriam F. E. L. Beal. 
Ames was association with intellectual men interested in the things 
that he had previously been compelled to study alone. Among 
these men were Charles E. Bessey, the botanist, Herbert Osborn, 
the entomologist, A. S. Welch, President and professor of philo- 
sophy, W. H. Wynn, Professor of English Literature, J. H. Ma- 
comber, Professor of Physics, T. E. Pope, Chemist, and Charles 
Aldrich, who like himself was interested chiefly in birds. A number 
of the professors including Professor Beal formed a dining club 
known as the Lamellibranchophagists. This organization no 
doubt was modeled after the contemporaneous New York Society 
called the Ichthyophagists, and Professor Beal was interested in 
the latter to the extent of sending a shipment of Iowa river mussels 
for trial at one of the dinners of the club. 
During the last year he spent at Ames, 1882-83, Professor Beal 
gave courses in geology. In September of that year he went to 
Massachusetts and bought a farm near that on which he had 
grown up. Returning to Iowa he made all preparations to move 
the family and they were settled on the farm in December, 1883. 
Here he remained for the next eight years, with the exceptions 
of a stay in Chicago, where he taught mathematics in the Manual 
Training School from January to June, inclusive, 1886, and in 
Washington where he held a temporary appointment in the Divi- 
sion of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy from December 16, 
1886, to June 30, 1887. Even when isolated from the intellectual 
world and occupied with the daily round of duties on his New 
England farm, Professor Beal did not give up his interest in scien- 
tific things. He lectured to the Grange and State Agricultural 
Association on various scientific subjects, and it is interesting to 
note, gave an address to the Lunenberg Farmers’ Club on ‘The 
Usefulness of Birds.’ At this time he still wrote articles on birds 
for publication in the Iowa Homestead. 
Professor Beal’s second and permanent term of service in Wash- 
ington began February 17, 1892, five years after his temporary 
appointment. Thereafter he worked for the Biological Survey 
continuously for more than twenty-four years, making a total of 
about twenty-five years spent in professional pursuit of the science 
of Economic Ornithology. During his short period of service in 
1886-7, Professor Beal spent his time in making digests of answers 
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