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Mr. Peach eventually went to Scotland, being stationed first at, 
Peterhead, and afterwards at Wick, where he made the acquaint- 
ance of Robert Dick, the Thurso baker and geologist. The 
account of their friendship and mutual studies is contained in 
some of the most interesting chapters in Dr. Smiles’s Life of 
Robert Dick, part of which book is devoted to a biographical 
sketch of Mr. Peach. It was also while stationed in the North 
that he made the discoveries, at Durness and Assynt, of those 
fossils which are now our means of determining the geological 
age of the Sutherland rocks. Not only among scientific men had 
Mr. Peach a large acquaintance; but his genial and sympathetic 
nature attached to him also many men of literary pursuits, 
amongst whom was Lord Tennyson, a frequent guest in Mr. 
Peach’s house at Fowey, in Cornwall, with whom he formed a 
lifelong friendship. 
When he retired Mr. Peach settled at Edinburgh, where he 
died in March, 1886. English science has hardly a more remark- 
able example of its successful pursuit under difficulties. Huis duties 
were always with Mr. Peach the first consideration, and at no 
time of his life did his salary exceed £150, while in Cornwall it 
was but £75 with an allowance for a horse. 
