The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



No. 29] 1899 [JANUARY 



THE LATE JAMES HARDY, LL.D. 



THE death of Dr. Hardy, which took place at his residence 

 at Oldcambus Town Head, in the Parish of Cockburnspath, 

 Berwickshire, on Friday, the 3Oth of September, 1898, has 

 caused a blank in the ranks of Scottish Naturalists, which 

 will not be easily filled. Born near Penmanshiel, on the 1st 

 of June 1815, James Hardy had thus, at the time of his 

 death, already entered upon his eighty-fourth year ; but he 

 came of a long-lived race, and, as recorded upon the tomb- 

 stone in God's acre at Coldingham Abbey, where his mortal 

 remains were laid in their last resting-place, on Wednesday, 

 the 5th of October last, his father had lived to the ripe old 

 age of 100 years. 



The eldest son of a highly respected family, which had 

 for many years been established as farmers in the Parish of 

 Cockburnspath, James Hardy, after obtaining a good pre- 

 paratory education at the village school, entered the 

 University of Edinburgh about the year 1833. After four 

 sessions of College life, one of which was spent at Glasgow 

 for the purpose of attending a special class there, he returned 

 home in somewhat indifferent health, and for a few years his 

 course in life seems to have been uncertain. Although from 

 early boyhood a most diligent student, he appears to have 

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