Obituary—Charles Tookey, F.LC, F.C.S. 95 



CHARLES TOOKEY, F.I.C., F.C.S. 

 Born May 13, 1828. Died January 3, 1906. 



We regret to record the death of Charles Tookey. He was born 

 at Oddingley Rectory in Worcestershire, and educated at Bromsgrove 

 School ; he became a student at the Eoyal College of Chemistry 

 in 1851, and was an assistant in the following year. In 1854-5 

 he was assistant to Dr. Stenhouse at St, Bartholomew's Hospital, 

 and from 1856 to 1865 assistant to Dr. Percy at the Eoyal School 

 of Mines. During this period he analysed examples of iron-ore 

 from South Staffordshire for part 2 of " The Iron Ores of Great 

 Britain," 1858 (Mem. Geological Survey). 



In 1865 he was appointed Assayer in H.M. Mint at Hong Kong, 

 a post which he relinquished in 1868. From 1870 to 1874 he was 

 Assayer, Chemist, Superintendent of Refinery, and Temporary 

 Director at the Japanese Imperial Mint at Osaka. On his return 

 to this country he served 1874-8 as Chemist on the Admiralty 

 Boiler Committee. He was author of papers " On the Separation 

 of Tin from Antimony, and on the analysis of alloys containing 

 Lead, Tin, Antimony, and Copper" (1862) and "On the Manipulation 

 of Assays of Gold and Silver Bullion" (1870), Journ. Chem. Soc. 



We are indebted for most of the above particulars to the 

 "Register of the Associates and Old Students of the Royal College 

 of Chemistry, the Royal School of Mines," etc., by T. G. Chambers, 

 1897. 



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Retiebment of Dr. B. N. Peach, F.R.S. 



In September last Dr. B. N. Peach, F.R.S. , retired from the 

 Geological Survey after a period of 43 years service. Joining 

 the staff in 1862 as assistant geologist, after a distinguished career 

 at the Royal School of Mines, he was engaged for the first few 

 months in determining Carboniferous fossils from the county of 

 Fife under Salter's supervision in the London office. When 

 favourable opportunities presented themselves during his subsequent 

 career, he pursued this branch of research with keen fascination, 

 impelled by the instinct of the naturalist, which he inherited from 

 his gifted father. In the same year he was attached to the field 

 staff in Scotland, then under the direction of Sir Andrew Ramsay, 

 and in 1867 he was appointed geologist when a separate staff was 

 organised for the northern part of the kingdom under the Directorship 

 of Sir A. Geikie. Throughout his long career it has fallen to his 

 lot to take a prominent part in mapping all the Palaeozoic formations 

 in Scotland, together with large areas of crystalline schists of the 



