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is best known as author of "Organic Remains of a Former World " 

 (1804-11), in the compilation of which he examined "the numerous 

 valuable specimens " in the British Museum. The figures, however, were 

 chiefly drawn from specimens in his own " tolerably large and systematic 

 cabinet, obtained from the museums of Mr. Strange, Lord Donegal, 

 M. Calonne, and of several other collectors " (" Org. Rem.," I., p. vi.). 

 Among names elsewhere mentioned is that of Sir Ashton Lever. Mantell 

 calls it a " matchless collection " (London Geol. Journ., p. 14). Unfor- 

 tunately it was dispersed by auction in April, 1827, at very low prices. 

 " A great number of the zoophytes," says Mantell (loc. cit.\ " were 

 purchased by an American gentleman for a few pounds, sent to the 

 United States, and were consumed by fire, with the museum in which 

 they were contained." Mantell himself bought a bear's skull from 

 Gailenreuth, and other specimens, which came ultimately to the 

 British Museum. Others came in like manner through the EnniskilleR 

 collection. In the Sowerby collection, specimens marked with a "P" 

 were bought at the Parkinson sale. The original of Vol. III., pi. xvi., 

 f. 19, Coronulites diadema, bought by Rev. Thos. Image, of Whepstead, 

 Bury St. Edmunds, was eventually obtained for the nation from Mr. W. 

 Nelson Last, of Bury St. Edmunds. Among other museums to which 

 Parkinson's specimens found their way, are those of Cambridge ("Life of 

 Sedgwick," p. 280), of Oxford, and of Haslemere (Museums Journ., ii., 

 117). To the Geological Society be presented various specimens in 1813 

 and 1814, but his name does not appear in the old records of donations to 

 the British Museum. 



Peach (CHARLES WILLIAM) [1800-1886] 



Peach was in the coastguard service, and began his geological studies 

 on the south coast of Cornwall. He was one of the earliest discoverers of 

 fossils, including fish-remains, in the Devonian rocks of that county, and 

 his first collection is now in the Penzance Museum. He removed to> 

 Wick, Caithness, in 1853, and again began to discover fossils, notably 

 fishes, in the Old Red Flagstones of the cliffs near Wick, and invertebrates 

 in the Silurian limestones of Durness, Sutherland. His Scottish col- 

 lection, purchased by the British Museum in 1870, comprised 41 Silurian 

 fossils from Durness, 130 Old Red Sandstone fishes and crustacean 

 remains, 185 Jurassic fossils from Brora, and some Old Red Sandstone and 

 Carboniferous plants. Many of the fishes bear small descriptive labels or 

 notes in Peach's own handwriting. 



Pearson (J. N.) 



Presented Ordovician fossils from Ohio, 1851. 



Pengelly (WILLIAM) [1812-1894] 



Pengelly resided at Torquay and superintended the excavations in 

 Brixham Cave and Kent's Cavern, which were respectively undertaken 

 by the Royal and Geological Societies in 1858-59, and by the British 

 Association in 1864-79. He also explored the Happaway Cave in 1862-63. 

 Besides these researches, geological work and the collection of fossils in 

 the Devonian, Carboniferous, Cretaceous, and Tertiary rocks of Devon- 

 shire and part of Cornwall, also occupied him for many years. The 

 collection of remains from Brixham Cave, described by Prof. George Busk 

 (Phil. Trans., 1873), was presented to the British Museum in 1876. The 

 first selection of the Kent's Cavern collection, described in the British 

 Association Reports, was presented to the Museum by the Council of the 

 British Association and Lord Haldon in 1883, while the second selection 



