106 GLAUCUS ; OR, 
feebly in the glass jar of salt water; for he is one of 
the many curiosities which have been added to our 
fauna by that humble hero Mr. Charles Peach, the 
self-taught naturalist, of whom, as we walk on 
toward the rocks, something should be said, or 
rather read; for Mr. Chambers, in an often-quoted 
passage from his Edinburgh Journal, which I must 
have the pleasure of quoting once again, has told the 
story better than we can tell it :— 
“But who is that little intelligent-looking man 
in a faded naval uniform, who is so invariably to 
be seen in a particular central seat in this section? 
That, gentle reader, is perhaps one of the most 
interesting men who attend the British Association. 
He is only a private in the mounted guard (pre- 
ventive service) at an obscure part of the Cornwall 
coast, with four shillings a day, and a wife and nine 
children, most of whose education he has himself to 
conduct. He never tastes the luxuries which are 
so common in the middle ranks of life, and even 
amongst a large portion of the working classes. He 
has to mend with his own hands every sort of thing 
