346 IN MEMORIAM.— DR HARDY 



papers printed in the Proceedings of our Club (to 

 which he became a contributor as early as 1839) the 

 Proceedings of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 

 and in various scientific journals. An Association of 

 Tyneside entomologists, called the " Wallis Society," 

 usually met in Mr Hard3^'s house in Gateshead ; and in 

 1848, after he and his friend the late Mr T. J. Bold 

 had joined the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, there 

 was published as the result of their joint labours a 

 catalogue of the Coleoptera of Northumberland and 

 Durham, which, as Mr Bolam remarks, was "marvel- 

 lously exhaustive taking into account the somewhat 

 meagre attention which had up to that time been paid 

 to the Beetles of the district." Nor did he confine 

 his attention to subjects connected with natural science 

 only. Local history and antiquities, and the folk lore 

 of Berwickshire and Northumberland were investigated 

 with the same ardour. As earl}'' as 1844 he seems 

 (Correspondence of Dr Johnston, p. 295) to have con- 

 templated a work illustrative of the history of the 

 Borders. Unfortunately the project was never carried 

 out in its entirety, although a number of papers dealing 

 with Border family history, which subsequently appeared 

 in the Club's Proceedings, and in the Archceologia Aeliana, 

 were written about this period, and a series of papers 

 was contributed to the Legendary Division of Richardson's 

 " Local Historian's Table Book." These early con- 

 tributions were distinguished by the same careful 

 research and scrupulous regard to exactness of statement 

 which marked his later productions, although in their 

 form and style there is apparent a degree of crudeness, 

 which showed that he had not yet quite mastered his 

 materials. His assiduous observations were rewarded, 

 both in the botanical and entomological fields, by 

 the discovery of several species of plants and insects 

 previously unknown to science, which were given 



