238 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS 



any interest in the Club or its business can wonder at 

 them. For since the days of our founder — Dr George 

 Johnston of Berwick — no one has devoted himself with 

 such energy and enthusiasm to the Club as he whose loss we 

 all deplore. 



Dr Hardy began writing for us a year after I was born. 

 He has since then supplied some 300 articles to our 

 Proceedings on all kinds of interesting subjects. He was a 

 member of the Club for thirty-seven years, and during the 

 last twenty-seven years of his life he was either Secretary or 

 Joint Secretary. His correspondence, not only with members 

 of the Club, but with many other individuals and societies, 

 would form of itself valuable volumes, and through the 

 large acquaintance he had thus formed, he has made our 

 Club known and appreciated far beyond these Borders 

 where we dwell. Indeed Dr Hardy has lived for our Club, 

 and, I may add, he has died with our harness on ; for though 

 prevented by ill-health from attending any of this last 

 year's Field Meetings, he took a deep personal interest in 

 each one of them, corresponding fully with myself, the Club's 

 officials, and others, regarding them, and thus assisting us 

 greatly in drawing up the monthly circulars. It is a signifi- 

 cant fact that the circular for to-day's meeting is the only 

 one he declined to have anything to do with. On the day 

 of his lamented death, he wrote to me that he must leave 

 the details to the Rev. Mr Gunn and myself to adjust, but 

 throughout the wliole season ho has looked forward to the 

 geological part of to-day's excursion, and has had under 

 his view the paper which, at his request, Mr Gunn, 

 F.G.S., of H.M. Geological Survey, drew up, and which 

 will be read to us in the course of this afternoon, in tlie 

 absence of the writer, by our Secretary. 



Ladies and Gentlemen, it would be a sheer impossibility 

 for me, within the limits of time at my disposal, to do justice 

 to the career of our departed distinguished official and 

 friend, even were I competent for the purpose. This will 



