Benjamin Neeve Peach - biographical information - Revision history

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	== B. N. Peach, A.R.S.M., LL.D., F.R.S.,* President 1905-1908. ==		== B. N. Peach, A.R.S.M., LL.D., F.R.S.,* President 1905-1908. ==

	Extract from: History of the Geological Society of Glasgow 1858-1908, with biographical notes of prominent members. Glasgow: Published by the Society, 1908. (Public domain, copied from the Internet Archive)		'''Extract from: History of the Geological Society of Glasgow 1858-1908, with biographical notes of prominent members. Glasgow: Published by the Society, 1908. (Public domain, copied from the Internet Archive)'''

	I was born on 6th September, 1842, at Gorran Haven, a fishing village about three miles from Mevagissey, on the south coast of Cornwall. It was while stationed at Gorran Haven as an officer in the Coastguard that my father, the late Charles William Peach, discovered Lower Silurian fossils in the quartzites there that fixed the geological horizon of those rocks. My father having been transferred to H.M. Customs at Fowey, at the age of two I went with my parents to live at Fowey, a lovely place situated at the mouth of the Fowey River, a little further east than Gorran, and which has now become quite a fashionable resort. During the five years I lived there I sometimes accompanied my father and brothers while they were collecting fossils from the Devonian rocks, and can well remember two localities one, Punches Cross, at the mouth of Fowey Harbour, which yielded compressed specimens of a trilobite, Phacops, and the casts of pretty little shells, which I now know to belong to the genus BelleropTion. I also remember a cove situated about half-way between Fowey and Looe, where fragments of fish were to be seen in the pebbles of lustrous phyllites that make up the beach. (These fish remains have been determined as belonging to Pteraspis.)		I was born on 6th September, 1842, at Gorran Haven, a fishing village about three miles from Mevagissey, on the south coast of Cornwall. It was while stationed at Gorran Haven as an officer in the Coastguard that my father, the late Charles William Peach, discovered Lower Silurian fossils in the quartzites there that fixed the geological horizon of those rocks. My father having been transferred to H.M. Customs at Fowey, at the age of two I went with my parents to live at Fowey, a lovely place situated at the mouth of the Fowey River, a little further east than Gorran, and which has now become quite a fashionable resort. During the five years I lived there I sometimes accompanied my father and brothers while they were collecting fossils from the Devonian rocks, and can well remember two localities one, Punches Cross, at the mouth of Fowey Harbour, which yielded compressed specimens of a trilobite, Phacops, and the casts of pretty little shells, which I now know to belong to the genus BelleropTion. I also remember a cove situated about half-way between Fowey and Looe, where fragments of fish were to be seen in the pebbles of lustrous phyllites that make up the beach. (These fish remains have been determined as belonging to Pteraspis.)

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	[The next two paragraphs are taken from an article by Dr. Horne in the Geological Magazine, 1906.]		[The next two paragraphs are taken from an article by Dr. Horne in the Geological Magazine, 1906.]

	"In September last B. N. Peach, F.E.S., retired from the Geological Survey, after a period of forty-three years' service. Joining the staff in 1862 as assistant geologist, after a distinguished career at the Eoyal 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.<ref>28 Jermyn Street. Museum of Practical Geology.</ref> 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 Eamsay, 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 Archibald 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 Highlands. In particular, the detailed work in the complicated region in the West of Sutherland and Ross was carried out under his immediate supervision. It is within the mark to state that no other geologist has acquired such a thorough mastery of the details of Scottish geology, exclusive of the rocks of Secondary and Tertiary age.		"In September last B. N. Peach, F.R.S., retired from the Geological Survey, after a period of forty-three years' service. Joining the staff in 1862 as assistant geologist, after a distinguished career at the Eoyal 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.<ref>28 Jermyn Street. Museum of Practical Geology.</ref> 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 Eamsay, 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 Archibald 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 Highlands. In particular, the detailed work in the complicated region in the West of Sutherland and Ross was carried out under his immediate supervision. It is within the mark to state that no other geologist has acquired such a thorough mastery of the details of Scottish geology, exclusive of the rocks of Secondary and Tertiary age.

	"In 1879, after Mr. Etheridge, jun., had joined the geological department of the British Museum under Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S., Dr. Peach, in addition to his field duties, was appointed Acting Palaeontologist on the Scottish staff. He was thus furnished with opportunities which he had long in view. He devoted special attention to the palaeozoic arthropoda, and, in addition to his purely official work, he published papers in the Transactions of the Royal Society, Edinburgh; the Geological Society, London; and the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh. Among these papers we may particularly mention those dealing with the fossil scorpions of the Carboniferous and Silurian rocks of Scotland, and with the fauna of the Olenellus zone of the North-West Highlands. But the incessant demands of field work prevented him from carrying on his investigations as fully as he had hoped."		"In 1879, after Mr. Etheridge, jun., had joined the geological department of the British Museum under Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S., Dr. Peach, in addition to his field duties, was appointed Acting Palaeontologist on the Scottish staff. He was thus furnished with opportunities which he had long in view. He devoted special attention to the palaeozoic arthropoda, and, in addition to his purely official work, he published papers in the Transactions of the Royal Society, Edinburgh; the Geological Society, London; and the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh. Among these papers we may particularly mention those dealing with the fossil scorpions of the Carboniferous and Silurian rocks of Scotland, and with the fauna of the Olenellus zone of the North-West Highlands. But the incessant demands of field work prevented him from carrying on his investigations as fully as he had hoped."

	My retirement from the Geological Survey on 6th September, 1905, gave me the desired leisure, and I have been enabled to work at my favourite subject. On the 28th October of this year (1908) there has been published as one of the " Memoirs of the Geological Survey " a monograph on the Higher Crustacea of the Carboniferous Rocks of Scotland, in which I describe forty species and varieties of Schizopods, twenty-three of which are new. The monograph is illustrated by twelve plates of figures reproduced from my own drawings by the collotype process. For the purposes of the memoir, I have examined over 2000 specimens belonging to the Geological Survey, as well as other collections, having made use, among others, of those made by our own fellows, viz., Mr. Dunlop and the late James Coutts, to each of whom I dedicate a species.		My retirement from the Geological Survey on 6th September, 1905, gave me the desired leisure, and I have been enabled to work at my favourite subject. On the 28th October of this year (1908) there has been published as one of the "Memoirs of the Geological Survey" a monograph on the Higher Crustacea of the Carboniferous Rocks of Scotland, in which I describe forty species and varieties of Schizopods, twenty-three of which are new. The monograph is illustrated by twelve plates of figures reproduced from my own drawings by the collotype process. For the purposes of the memoir, I have examined over 2000 specimens belonging to the Geological Survey, as well as other collections, having made use, among others, of those made by our own fellows, viz., Mr. Dunlop and the late James Coutts, to each of whom I dedicate a species.

	Among the published results of my Survey work may be mentioned my share in the "Monograph on the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland" and "General Memoirs, North-West Highlands"		Among the published results of my Survey work may be mentioned my share in the "Monograph on the Silurian Rocks of the South of Scotland" and "General Memoirs, North-West Highlands"

	I may say that I am prouder of my A.E.S.M. (Associate of the Royal School of Mines) than of any other of the distinctions that have been conferred on me.		I may say that I am prouder of my A.R.S.M. (Associate of the Royal School of Mines) than of any other of the distinctions that have been conferred on me.

	B. N. P.		B. N. P.

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 == Ben Peach's Scotland, landscape sketches by a Victorian geologist ==

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	== Archives ==		== Archives ==
	A brief listing of Ben ~~peach~~ related archives held at BGS.		A brief listing of Ben Peach related archives held at BGS. Also consult the [https://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/NGDC/records/archive.html BGS Archives online catalogue]

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