Career
He described many species of Indo-Pacific marine mollusks from the Cumming collection. He moved in 1849 to Honolulu, from where he continued his research
One of the genera he described and named was the sea slug genus: Philinopsis Pease, 1860
Several species were named in his honor: Favartia peasei (Tryon, 1880), Conus peasei J. Brazier, 1877, Amygdalum peasei West. Newcomb, 1870 and Hypselodoris peasei (Bergh, 1880).
