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corals (Polyzoa), which would otherwise have 

 thrown away as waste. He never forgot what his keen 

 eyes had detected, and he never threw away what he 

 considered might be turned to some future account. 

 The last time we saw Mr. Peach * he was engaged in 

 preparing a paper on these waste objects, to be read 

 before the Linnean Society. The paper was entitled 

 " On Cellepora cervicomis of the British Seas." 



Mr. Peach left Wick in May 1865, and took up his 

 residence at a house in Leith Walk, where he still 

 lives.t He says, " I must work ; I should soon die if 

 idle. Work is life to me." He has consequently sent 

 many papers to the Linnean and other scientific 

 societies. One of these was on the British Polyzoa; 

 another (read at the Royal Institution of Cornwall) on 

 Zoophytes from the Cornish coast. 



Among his various honours he was elected Presi- 

 dent of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, and 

 in his opening address he discoursed of the history of 

 the Fossil Mora of the Old Red Sandstone of the North 

 of Scotland. He was also presented by the Royal Society 

 of Edinburgh with the Neill prize for the period 1871- 

 74, in acknowledgment of his extensive contributions to 

 geological science. In fact, so long as Mr. Peach lives 

 he is now seventy-nine his name will be heard of. 

 And yet he says he is not " an old man." He is still 

 an "old boy." That is what his wife calls him. For 

 he is cheerful, communicative, bright, and lively as 

 ever. 



* April 1878. f 30 Haddington Place, Edinburgh. 



