The Topeka Daily Capital Tuesday November 26, 1957 Dr. Raymond Beamer. Private funeral services for Dr. Raymond H. BEAMER, 68, retired professor of entomology and curator of the Francis Huntington Snow Entomological Museum at the University of Kansas were Monday morning at the Rumsey Funeral Home at Lawrence. He was the father of Raymond H. Beamer of Topeka. Doctor Beamer had lived in Lawrence since 1909. He obtained his A.B. degree in geology in 1913, the M.A. degree in entomology in 1917 and the Ph.D., degree in entomology in 1927. He became a partime instructor in 1922 and became a full professor in September, 1939. He was widely known for his work in insect collecting, especially for his research on leaf hoppers. He described as new to science hundereds of new species of these tiny insects and wrote more than 100 papers on these insects and others that were published in various entomological magazine in this country. Two of his former students are leading specialists on leaf hoppers. Through his work, the museum has one of the largest collections of insects in the United States. A member of Sigma Chi, he at one time was president of the Kansas Entomological Society and was on the editorial committee of the society's journal until 1954. He was a member of the First Methodist Church at Lawrence. Besides his son in Topeka, he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lucy Dunbar Beamer, of the home; a duaghter Mrs. Lawrence R. PENNER, Storrs, Conn.; another son, John David Beamer, West Covina, Conn.; three sisters, Mrs. G.S. Landrith, Lawrence; Mrs. Carl O. DUNBAR, New Haven, Conn.; and Mrs. Karl BRATTON, Durham, N.H., and 11 grandchildren.