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Norr.—I shall be happy to correspond with any naturalists living near 
the shore with a view to obtaining information regarding any Crustacea 
that may come under their notice. I shall also be glad to exchange speci- 
mens, and to assist, in any way in my power, any one who wishes to work at 
this interesting group, and give information as to the best mode of obtaining, 
preserving, and identifying specimens. — E. Loverr (West Burton House 
Outram Road, Croydon). 
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The late Charles William Peach.—We extract from the ‘ Scotsman ’ 
the following biographical notice of a very remarkable man. Charles 
William Peach died on the 28th of February, at his residence in Haddington 
Place, Leith Walk. He was born in the year 1800 at Wansford, in 
Northamptonshire, where he lived till early manhood. His birth-place 
being on the outskirts of the Bedford Purlieus, one of the great English 
forests, he became passionately addicted to field sports, and there can be 
‘no doubt that the keen observation developed in the pursuit of sport stood 
him in good stead when in after years his mind was directed to the more 
noble pursuit of Science. Having joined the Coastguard service while 
still a young man, he was stationed at various places on the east and south 
coasts of England. Those were the palmy days of smuggling, and Mr. 
Peach, who was always an indefatigable officer, had many hand-to-hand 
encounters with some of the most desperate characters engaged in the 
lawless traffic. It was while stationed at Cromer, in Norfolk, where the 
sea has long been known to be eating the land by washing down the clayey 
cliffs, thus exposing the remains of Mammalia, that his attention was first 
attracted to the objects cast up on the beach. ‘The living marine animals 
and Alge, on the one hand, led him to study Marine Zoology and Algology ; 
while, on the other hand, the remains of the dead animals naturally 
aroused him to the study of Paleontology, to all which branches of Science 
he afterwards made many valuable contributions. These studies brought 
him into contact with other workers in the same fields, many of whom are 
the highest authorities in their several departments—in Zoology, Darwin, 
Milne-Edwards, Edward Forbes, Allman, Owen, Huxley, Wyville, 
Thompson, Bowerbank, Alder, Hincks; in Algology, Harvey and Mrs. 
Greville ; in Geology and Paleontology, Buckland, De la Béche, Murchison, 
Lyell, Hugh Miller, Nicol, Geikie, all of whom have been more or less 
indebted to him for direct help in their researches, as reference to their 
works will fully bear out. Many of his discoveries, especially his earlier 
ones, were first announced by him before the British Association, his 
presence at whose meetings will be well remembered by uot a few of the 
