Charles William Peach
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Charles William Peach ALS was a British naturalist and geologist. He discovered fossils in Cornwall, after it had been stated by the geologist William Conybeare that there were no fossil-bearing rocks
Charles William Peach, 1844
Plaque commemorating C. W. Peach, placed on the former Customs House at Gorran Haven, Cornwall, UK by the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
Durness
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Durness is a village and civil parish in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. It lies on the north coast of the country in the traditional county of Sutherland, around 120 miles north of Inverness. T
Charles William Peach
…Comptroller of Customs, he met with Hugh Miller and collected "Buchan Flints". He collected fishes from the Old Red Sandstone; and during a sojourn at Durness he first found fossils in the Cambrian limestone (1854). Peach was honoured with medals from the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. Mrs Peach was…
Sango Bay
Durness with Smoo Cave; the youth hostel is upper right