436 EVENING DISCOURSES 
CONCLUSION. 
The result of Hardy’s work is with us to-day. It can be seen in the 
great ships which carry meat and fruit to our shores, in our cold stores, in 
the commercial gas stores for apples and in the fish markets. If Hardy 
were with us to-night, he would, I know, in his characteristic manner, give 
all the credit of his achievements to those who worked with him ; to those 
brilliant men he collected together at Cambridge, at Torry, at Ditton, and 
to others at the National Physical Laboratory. And last, but not least, he 
would have thanked those who helped and advised him as members of the 
Food Investigation Board. But certain it is that all these would be the 
first to agree that the credit is Hardy’s. He was at the helm, and it was he, 
more than all the others, who was responsible for the planning and develop- 
ment of the work, a task which gave full scope for the exercise of his remark- 
able powers. Truly Hardy was a great man; we shall not see his like 
again. 
