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in the Forest". General Hardy, I am greatly pleased to say^ 

 is still living, at 3 Victoria Park, Dover, and has reached 

 the age of eighty-one years. He takes a deep interest in 

 all our affairs and is our sole surviving original member.* 



At the February meeting, at which the patron, the Earl 

 of Mulgrave, was present, and spoke at some length, the 

 president, P. C. Hill, D. C. L., read an address. Hill, who 

 was then mayor of Halifax and a prominent gentlemen of the 

 time, attended only this one meeting and was probably 

 merel}'' a figure-head, being succeeded in October, 1863, 

 by J. Matthew Jones, since when the society has had, as its 

 presiding officer, men who have been directly interested in 

 scientific work. 



In x\pril, 1863, the place of meeting was changed to the 

 "Institute Room" in the Province Building, the use of which 

 was given by the government, where it assembled till May, 

 1871. From October 1871 till April 1887, it met in the 

 Provincial Museum; then for a short while in the Provincial 

 Engineer's office, Provincial Building; from December 1888 

 to April 1890 in the Art School; and thereafter mostly in 

 the Legislative Council Chamber and Assembly Room, and 



* Major General Campbell Hardy, late R.A., was born at Norwich, England, on 10th 

 October, 1831, son of the Rev. Charles Hardy, M.A. He was educated at the Royal Military 

 Academy, Woolwich. He entered the Royal Artillery as ensign on 19th December, 1849; 

 became Ueutenant on 11th August, 1851; and captain on 23rd February, 1856. He served in 

 Nova Scotia from February, 1852, to August, 1867, five and a half years of which period he 

 was Inspector of Warlike Stores and Firemaster. In 1866-7 he was also Inspecting Field 

 Officer of the Nova Scotia Militia Artillery. While in Halifax he lived on Robie Street 

 (Camp Hill). In 1869 he published in London his "Forest Life in Acadie", a work which is 

 very highly valued for its accurate and delightfully written accounts of forest life and sport- 

 ing adventures, he being a most ardent sportsman and lover of nature, as well as a skilful 

 artist. He was commissioned major on 5th July, 1872; lieutenant-colonel, 16th Jan., 1875; 

 colonel, 16th Jan., 1880; and was retired on full pay on 29th May, 1880, with the honorary 

 rank of major-general, and now resides at Dover, England. Outside of his period of service 

 in Nova Scotia, his life has been somewhat uneventful, but he has given much of his time to 

 his favorite studies and sport. He looks back upon his Acadian forest experiences as the 

 most deUghtful phase of his past. He pubUshed in our transactions six papers, viz., on Noc- 

 turnal Life of Animals in the Forest, The Capelin, Provincial Acclimatization, The Beaver in 

 Nova Scotia, Nova Scotian Conifers, and a Nova Scotian Naturalist (Andrew Downs). To 

 illustrate his paper on the beaver, he prepared a most carefully constructed model of a beaver 

 house in 1866, which was shown at the Industrial Exhibition, Paris, 1867, and is now in the 

 Provincial Museum. 



