IN MEMORIAM.— DR HARDY 347 



and still boar the specific name Hardii, by way of 

 compliment to their discoverer. His reputation as 

 a scientific observer rapidly spread, and he became the 

 correspondent of such well-known entomologists as 

 the late Mr A. H. Haliday, and of prominent botanists 

 like the late Professors Bahington and Balfour. In 

 1852 the Edinburgh Committee of the British Association 

 foi- the Advancement of Science awarded him a prize 

 for a paper entitled "Researches on Phytophagous Diptera"; 

 and in the following year he contributed a list of Cocktails 

 to the " Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland," by 

 Mr Andr-ew Murray and others, which was published 

 in Edinburgh the same year. His exhaustive essay 

 on the turnip beetle and other insects injurious to the 

 turnip crop, which attracted much attention at the 

 time, appeared along with the Club's Proceedings for 

 1848, but was issued as a separate paper. No better 

 example than this essay could be given of his methods 

 of working at that period. 



Mr Hardy conducted his academy in Gateshead for 

 several years with fair success, but the failure of his 

 health compelled him to return to his father's house 

 at Penmanshiel, and ever afterwards he resided con- 

 tinuously in the parish of his boyhood. Although 

 ostensibly associated with his father and brothers in 

 farming, most of his time and energy was now devoted 

 to the prosecution of his favourite studies, to correspondence 

 with l)r Johnston and other scientific friends, and to 

 the publication of the results of his observations and 

 researches. The majority of these papers appeared 

 in the Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 

 Club, and some idea of their number and variety may 

 be formed from the list of them drawn up by the 

 E-ev. G. Gunn, and printed in the Appendix to this 

 Notice. Others were contributed to the pages of the 

 Border Magazine, the Folk Lore Record, and other 



