80 GLAUCUS ; OR, 



Mr. Chambers, in an often quoted passage from 

 his Edinburgh Journal, which we 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 mount- 

 ed guard (preventive 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 that can 

 break or wear in his house. Yet Mr. Peach is 

 a votary of Natural History ; not a student of 

 the science in books, for he cannot afford books ; 

 but an investigator by sea and shore, a collector of 

 zoophytes and echinodermata, strange creatures, 

 many of which are as yet hardly known to man. 

 These he collects, preserves, and describes ; and 

 every year does he come up to the British Asso- 



