Peach, Charles William

Peach, Charles William

▪ English naturalist and geologist
born Sept. 30, 1800, Wansford, Northamptonshire, Eng.
died Feb. 28, 1886, Edinburgh

      English naturalist and geologist who made valuable contributions to the knowledge of marine invertebrates and of fossil plants and fish.

      While in the revenue coast guard (1824–45) in Norfolk, his attention was attracted to seaweeds and other marine organisms, and he began to collect them. In Cornwall, Peach found fossils in some of the older rocks previously regarded as unfossiliferous. This discovery proved the presence of Bala beds (Ordovician strata, 488,000,000 to 443,000,000 years old) nearby. In 1841 he wrote a paper entitled “On the Fossil Organic Remains Found on the Southeast Coast of Cornwall,” and in 1843 he gave an account of his discovery of fish remains in the Devonian slates (416,000,000 to 359,000,000 years old) near Polperro, Cornwall.

      Peach was appointed to a position with customs at Fowey, Cornwall, in 1845, and four years later he went to Scotland. He studied the Old Red Sandstone (Devonian strata), the boulder clay of Caithness, and the Carboniferous plants (359,000,000 to 299,000,000 years old) of Scotland. During a stay at Durness, Sutherland, in 1854, he found the first fossils in the Cambrian limestone (542,000,000 to 488,000,000 years old). He also identified many new species of sponges, coelenterates, and mollusks.

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