Talk:Frank A. Beach

(psychobiologist)
Frank A. Beach was not an anthropologist, he was a psychobiologist. Clellan S. Ford was an anthropologist. Together they wrote "Patterns of Sexual Behaviour", flipping a coin to decide whose name would appear first. Beach worked with animals, Ford with humans.

Fibber McGhee in Mali (talk) 03:46, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

"The Snark was a Boojum"
Beach was apparently the author of a journal article with that title. The PDF that link addresses seems consistent with xeroxing pages from a bound collection of issues of an academic journal, scrawling at the top of its first page "1950 Amer Psychol 5:115-124", and creating the PDF from those xeroxed sheets. That article's early pages mention that it is said that a snark hunter whose quarry turns out to be a boojum will "softly and suddenly vanish away, and never be met with again", and the title's apparent intent was to avoid a snorer-article title like "Domination by the psychology of albino Norway rats must thwart comparative psychology". It may be worthy of mention just to further support the assertion about his sense of humor, and i for one would hope that response to it (or lack thereof) was a significant biographical event that would, after further research, be worthy of mention. --Jerzy•t 07:45, 17 October 2012 (UTC)