250 ENRICHES CORNISH COLLECTIONS. CHAP. xvi. 



to a pretty house overlooking the river Fowey and the 

 English Channel, and at this house Mr. Tennyson, the 

 Poet Laureate, was a frequent visitor. 



While residing at Fowey, Mr. Peach became an 

 honorary member of all the scientific societies in Corn- 

 wall. But he was far more than an honorary member. 

 He greatly enriched their collections. He added many 

 organic remains of the Devonian Eocks to the admirable 

 collection of the Eoyal Geological Society of Cornwall. 

 Indeed, the collection seems to have remained as Mr. 

 Peach left it, some thirty years ago. The President of 

 the Society, at the meeting in 1877, thus referred to the 

 museum at Penzance : " Our collection contains Devon- 

 ian forms from the lower, middle, and upper series, in 

 most of those areas in the counties of Cornwall and 

 Devon, where the rocks are exposed. It must be allowed 

 that it is essential to the credit and future history of the 

 Society that this, of all groups of rocks and associated 

 fossils, should be well, if not perfectly, represented in the 

 museum. The collection, as it now stands, is in the 

 main due to the energy and industry of Mr. Charles 

 Peach, A.L.S., one of our oldest living naturalists, who 

 for many years resided on the south coast of Cornwall, 

 there making a special study of the coast sections, and 

 who extensively collected from them, especially at East 

 and West Looe, Polperro, Polruan, and Fowey. This 

 truly great collection is now displayed in the cases of 

 our Society, and has been but little added to since, a 

 circumstance especially to be regretted, when we take 

 into consideration the great amount of work and re- 



