248 BUYS A MICROSCOPE. CHAP. xvi. 



Cornwall Mounted Guard. And accordingly he will go 

 home in a few days, full of the glory of his exhibition, 

 and strung anew by the kind notice taken of him by 

 the masters of science, to proceed in similar inquiries, 

 difficult as it may be to prosecute them under such a 

 complication of duties, professional and domestic. 



" But he has still another subject of congratulation ; 

 for Dr. Carpenter has kindly given him a microscope,* 

 wherewith to observe the structure of his favourite 

 animals, an instrument for which he has sighed for 

 many years in vain. Honest Peach ! humble as is thy 

 name and simple thy learning, thou art an honour even 

 to this assemblage of nobles and doctors ; nay more, 

 when I consider everything, thou art an honour to 

 human nature itself; for where is the heroism like that 

 of virtuous, intelligent, independent poverty ? and such 

 heroism is thine ! " 



burgh. On that occasion, Professor Geikie said "Somewhere about 

 twenty species of marine fauna, and several genera of sponges, were 

 first made known by him as denizens of British seas. He has consider- 

 ably augmented our list of native hydrozoa and polyzoa. The naked- 

 eyed Medusae owe not a little to his attention, and one genus of them 

 (Staurophora) was first introduced by him to the naturalists of this 

 country. The Echinodenns, too, are under similar obligations to him, 

 for, besides bringing several new species to light, he found the huge 

 Echinus mtlo of the Mediterranean on the coast of Cornwall, and sup- 

 plied the twenty-armed Holothuria nigra to fill up the blank pointed 

 rut by Edward Forbes among the British Holothuriae. " Proceedings 

 v/the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 5th April 1875. 



* This is a mistake. The microscope was not given by Dr. Car- 

 penter, but he kindly superintended its fitting up. Mr. Peach obtained 

 the money to purchase it, by superintending and adding to the col- 

 lections of Natural History at the Polytechnic Institution of Falmouth 



