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am absolutely correct in saying that in his relations to other people, 
Professor Beal was always in the right. That is a great deal to 
say; 1t means devotion to— nay it means more — means living 
the Golden Rule. Yet my calm judgment is that he succeeded 
in doing just that. 
It is unnecessary, therefore, to add that he won the admiration 
and affection of all who became acquainted with him. Fortu- 
nately, his was not a case in which expression of these sentiments 
was deferred until after death. On his 70th birthday, the staff 
of the Biological Survey united in congratulating him and in pre- 
senting him with a loving cup. Dinners or luncheons were ten- 
dered him on all of his recent birthdays, and the occasion of his 
75th, January 9, 1915, is thus recorded in his diary. “The boys 
took me to Harvey’s and stuffed me with oysters, and then pre- 
sented me with a beautiful piece of cut glass.”’ 
As noted at the outset, Professor Beal was in his 77th year. In 
all probability, therefore, death could not have been long deferred. 
Is it not much better, then, that it came before there was marked 
impairment either physical or mental? Certainly that is the way 
it appears to me, and the conviction that all was for the best for 
him, checks the feeling of sadness, which, after all is selfish in 
origin. Our nobler impulses prompt us only to high appreciation 
of his long career so honorable and useful, of a most admirable 
growing old, and of a passing that was really enviable. Professor 
Beal lived the life of a man, unafraid, and was fortunate enough to 
die in the harness. Our memories of him, therefore, can only be 
of one well and vigorous, alert of mind, a hard worker and a good 
companion. [If all lives were as productive and all natures so open 
and honest, it would indeed be a better world. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
Much of Professor Beal’s earlier writing was published in news- 
papers, and is practically lost. In a scrap-book kept by the Pro- 
fessor are clippings of the newspaper articles hereunder listed, exact 
references to which are lacking. Most of the sketches were pub- 
lished in the Iowa State Register and in an editorial note included 
