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Notes and Comments. 



Nature endeavouring to prove that pre-glacial men in the 

 Humber district wore trousers. 



JOHN RAY HARDY. 



Through the courtesy of Mr. R. Standen we are able to 

 give our readers a portrait of the late J. R. Hardy, whose 

 services at the Manchester Museum are well known. Mr. 

 Hardy was born at Nether Hallam, in Yorkshire, in 1844, 

 and as Mr. Standen, in his memoir referred to elsewhere. 



states ' Of powerful physique, Mr. Hardy was a good all-round' 

 athlete, an expert with rod and gun, and an excellent swimmer. 

 He was an excellent taxidermist and osteologist, a keen 

 ornithologist and entomologist, with a special liking for 

 Beetles, which were, hrst and always, his chief favourites, 

 and a group in which he made many important discoveries.' 



WILLIAM SMITH. 



In ' William Smith, His Maps and Memoirs,' published 

 by the Yorkshire Geological Society recently, an effort was 

 made to bring together particulars of all the portraits, busts, 



Naturalist 



