348 IN MEMORIAM.— DR HARDY 



scientific and literary journals. In addition to the 

 interest due to his personal observations, a special charm 

 was imparted to his scientific contributions — especially 

 his botanical ones — by the skilful use he made of materials 

 gleaned from old herbals and floras, of which he had 

 formed a large collection. Mr Bolam in his obituary 

 notice of Dr Hardy written for the Annals of Scottish 

 Natural History (January 1899), has some pertinent 

 remarks on these papers which may be here quoted. 

 He says : " Amongst the many contributions to our 

 knowledge of the Border counties for which we are 

 indebted to Dr Hardy, may be instanced his ' Popular 

 Rhymes of Berwickshire,' ' The Wild Cat in the Border 

 District,' ' Bowling as an extinct game in Berwickshire,' 

 the ' Lichen Flora ' and ' Moss Flora ' of the Eastern 

 Borders,' his ' Contributions to the Entomology of the 

 Cheviot Hills,' ' Ancient Stone and Flint Implements 

 of Berwickshire and the Borders,' and his history of 

 the ' Wolf in Scotland,' all of which are full of interest- 

 ing details concerning the subjects treated. Many of 

 them have been largely quoted, not always with due 

 acknowledgment made, and one of them ' The Wolf in 

 Scotland ' was so appreciated by Mr Harting that it 

 was very largely made use of in his ' Extinct British 

 Animals, ' with but very scanty reference to the source 

 from which his information was obtained, and the writer 

 has frequently heard Dr Hardy refer, with considerable 

 sarcasm, to the piracy so committed." 



Notwithstanding his frequent contributions to its 

 Proceedings, Mr Hardy did not attach himself to the 

 Club as an ordinary member until the year 1863. At 

 that time the late Mr George Tate of Alnwick, 

 an accomplished geologist and antiquarian, filled the 

 post of Secretary, and upon his death in 1871 it fell 

 to the lot of Mr Hardy, in conjunction with Dr Francis 

 Douglas of Kelso, to take up the duties of the office 



