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For a time Manly Hardy attended the common schools of Brewer but 

 was later a pupil in the private classes of the late Rev. George W Field, 

 D D At this early period of his life he contemplated a career in foreign 

 lands as a missionary, but an injury to his eyes compelled him to abandon 

 this desire; but he maintained throughout life a strong interest in religious 

 work With the development of ill health he sought the woods of his 

 native State for recuperation, where he spent much of his time for many 

 years, finally becoming an extensive fur buyer and large shipper of furs 

 to foreign markets. This life brought him into close association with 

 trappers and woodsmen, mainly Indians and "silent white men. Under 

 such environment he acquired a keen insight into nature s secrets, and 

 became an authority on the language and traditions of the Indians with 

 whom he was thus brought into close association. For a time, in 18bl, 

 he was connected with the Maine State Scientific Survey. 



In the words of a local biographer: "Early in life Mr. Hardy began to 

 take a lively interest in the birds, but it was not till he was over 40 years 

 of age that he began his collection. When in 1890 he gave up active 

 business, he devoted more and more of his attention to adding rare and 

 unusual specimens to what is regarded as one of the finest private col- 

 lections of mounted and unmounted bird skins in the country. His 

 collection, it is said, embraces nearly every species of North American 

 bird, and numbers some 3,300 specimens, mostly mounted by himseit. 



His interest in wild life and his intimate knowledge of birds and animals 

 brought him into close association with many prominent naturalists, 

 among them being the late Major Bendire, to whose work on the Li fe 

 Histories of North American Birds' Mr. Hardy contributed much valuable 

 information, He was not, however, much given to making public record 

 of his observations. Between 1878 and 1889 he was an occasional con- 

 tributor to the 'Bulletin' of the Nuttall Ornithological Club and The 

 \uk ' but his natural history communications were mainly published in 

 'Forest and Stream,' to which well known journal he was a valued con- 

 tributor of natural history articles for nearly forty years. These were 

 generally instigated by some erroneous statement by others in the columns 

 of his favorite medium of communication, and with facile and vigorous 

 pen he then drew freely upon his store of positive fact concerning the 



matters at issue. n . 



Mr Hardy was elected an Associate Member of the American Orni- 

 thologists' Union at its first meeting and he retained this membership till 

 1901 He was also a member of the Bangor Historical Society. He was 

 held in high esteem by all who knew him, and his acts of charity and good- 

 will will be long remembered by those whose good fortune it was to know 

 him personallv. His end came suddenly, although not unexpectedly, 

 after little more than a day's illness. Of his five children still living, one 

 Mrs. Fanny Hardy Ecstorm, is well known to readers of ' The Auk through 

 her important contributions to ornithological literature. 



