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from a previous generation, without much effort to correlate British 

 forms with continental, or to keep touch Avith foreign workers. 



]?abingtou's ' jNlanual ' is now in its eighth edition, and the 

 influence of the succes^^ive editions on field-botany during the 

 last 43 years can hardly be measured ; we are living iu a genera- 

 tion nourishi'd by a different atmosphere. 



In ISio Newbould proceeded M.A., and, after his marriage 

 at Combertou with the niece of his Kector, he lived in or near 

 London the rest of his life, with short exceptions. The various 

 notices which have seen the light in botanical journals have testified 

 amply to the strong and unique individuality of the man, who was 

 so slaimch a worker for others, and yet has left so little to record 

 of himself. 



There is scarcely a local flora during thirty years past which 

 does not owe much to his kuowlfdge and industry; and of yet 

 unpublis^hed works he has contributed to Hanbury's ' Kent,' 

 Pryor's 'Hertfordshire,' Hillhouse's 'Bedfordshire,' Warren's 

 ' Clieshire,' and Beeby's ' New Flora of ^nrrey.' 



The last four years of his life he lived at Monta^ju House, 

 Kew. In January last he was accidentally knocked down by a 

 cab, and although he seemed little the worse for it at the time, 

 some internal injury took place, as he complained of pain some 

 weeks afterwards. Shortly after he renewt'd a cold, and, refusing 

 to take any care of himself whilst unw ell, he exposed himself to a 

 fresh chill, which turned to acute pneumonia; from this he ap- 

 peared to be recovering, when weakness of the heart's action 

 set in, and he died on April IGth, after three weeks' illness, 

 leaving a widow, and a growni-up family of five sons and a daughter. 

 He was buried, 20th April, IS.SG, at Fulham Cemetery. 



He was elected Fellow, June 15, 1863. 



Chakles AVilliam Peach was born at Wansford in North- 

 amptonshire, September 30, 1800. At the age of 24 he waa 

 appointed to the Kevenue Coast Guard, and occupied various 

 stations on the south and east coasts of England, his longest 

 sojourn being at Mevagissey iu Cornwall, where he remained 

 eleven years. In 1845 he was transferred to the Customs, and 

 during the last twelve years of his service was stationed in the 

 north of Scotland, first at Peterhead, and afterwards at Wick. 

 He retired I'rom the Customs on a pension in 1861, and spent 

 the remainder of his life in Edinburgh, where he died, February 

 28, 18S6. 



Whilst stationed in the south of England he acquired an inti- 

 mate knowledge of the marine fauna of that coast, and also 

 devoted much attention to Geology. One of his most important 

 discoveries was that of the presence ot fossils of Lower Silu- 

 rian age iu rocks in Cornwall that had previously been consi- 

 dered to be Azoic — a discovery that may be said to have fur- 

 nished Sir Henry de la Beche w ith a basis for mapping the rocka 

 of the south-west of England. It was in like manner Peach's 



