175:. While he was at BYU, Beck lived with his grandmother in Spanish Fork and commuted each day. He also enlisted in the Medical Corps of the National Guard, and served for three years. Beck was selected to participate in a biology field expedition in 1928 where he spent six weeks surveying land in Idaho and Utah. During his senior year at BYU, he was a laboratory instructor in general zoology. He graduated from BYU in 1929 with his
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Chinese government. Beck also spent two years working with the Taiwan Provincial Malaria Research Institute. Beck had a collection of earthworms that he began in 1948. This collection was sent to the American Museum of Natural History.
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