350 IN MEMORIAM.— DR HAEDY 



interests were felt to be secure in his hands. When 

 in his full vigour the labour he expended on such ordinary 

 routine work as preparing for a field meeting was 

 enormous. It was a customary thing for hira to go 

 over the ground to be explored, by himself before the 

 meeting, making careful observations of all objects and 

 places of interest, collecting every available scray) of 

 local tradition or information bearing upon them, and 

 arranging the details of the movements of the party 

 down to the minutest particulars. The exploration of 

 the Cheviot Hills was an undertaking upon which he 

 entered with special zest. Some of his earliest efforts, 

 both in prose and verse, are devoted to the description 

 and laudation of . the Border range, and n6ne of his 

 letters are more interesting ^han those in which he 

 records, with evident relish, his wanderings and adven- 

 tures in that region. The discovery of a rare bird or 

 insect, or of a scarce plant, was a sufficient reward for a 

 long day's tramp; and a "crack" with a well-informed 

 shepherd on the lone hillside, or by the blazing 

 ingle-neuk after night had fallen, completed his 

 enjoyment. Like Wordsworth's shephord-lord : — 



" Love had he found in liuts where poor men lie ; 

 His daily teachers had been woods and rills, 

 The silence that is in the starry sky, 



The sleep that is among the lonely hills." 



Often these solitary expeditions occupied several 

 days, and in this way he became familiar with many 

 of the remotest portions of the Border district, and 

 collected a fund of local information such as probably 

 no man ever before possessed. Much of the knowledge 

 so acquired, it is to be feared, has died with hira, but 

 a large proportion of it was utilised in the enrichment 

 of the Reports of the Club's meetings, which in his 



