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Charles William Peach

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British naturalist and geologist

ScientistsLived 1800 to 1886 · aged 85
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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 in Cornwall.

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Charles William Peach, 1844Charles William Peach, 1844Plaque commemorating C. W. Peach, placed on the former Customs House at Gorran Haven, Cornwall, UK by the Royal Geological Society of CornwallPlaque commemorating C. W. Peach, placed on the former Customs House at Gorran Haven, Cornwall, UK by the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall

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Fellow of the Linnean Society of London

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Scientists born in the 1800s 6

Heinrich Carl Küster34.7Wilhelm Ludwig Petermann34.1Johann Wilhelm Sturm34.7Antonio Maurizio Zumaglini33.1Richard Joseph Courtois34.8Jacob Heinrich Wilhelm Lehmann33.1

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Scientists
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Scientist
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deceased
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Lived 1800 to 1886 · aged 85
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5 languages

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